Dalkeith Works
DALKEITH WORKS, GREEN LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391023
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-2004
- List Entry Name:
- Dalkeith Works
- Statutory Address:
- DALKEITH WORKS, GREEN LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391023
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-2004
- List Entry Name:
- Dalkeith Works
- Statutory Address 1:
- DALKEITH WORKS, GREEN LANE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- DALKEITH WORKS, GREEN LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 86878 78575
Details
728/0/10007 GREEN LANE 23-APR-04 Dalkeith Works
II Boot and shoe factory. 1873, extended in similar style by 1884. For Abbot and Bird. Orange-red brick with stone ashlar dressings. C20 concrete tile hipped roofs with deep eaves supported on shaped stone eaves brackets. Italianate style. 3 storeys with 2-storey and single-storey elements on right end. Main range has 17-window front of cast-iron framed windows with round-arched heads to ground and first floors and segmental above. Raised storey bands and quoins. Doorways in slightly projecting 2- and 3-window elements to centre and far right (the latter the pre-1884 extension). The right end has the 2-storey element of 2 windows over doorway in moulded stone surround and small window, and a single-storey 3 windows and doorway element. Rear walling has brick window heads. HISTORY. This factory was built for Abbot and Bird in 1873 and they are noted as still operating here until c.1914 when it was bought by James Partridge, a shoe mercer and manufacturer. By 1924 it had become a printing works. SOURCES. EH Northamptonshire Boot and Shoe Survey, Site Report No.51. Morrison, Kathryn A., with Bond, Ann, 'Built to Last? The Boot and Shoe Buildings of Northamptonshire', forthcoming, pp.12-14.
This well-detailed factory was one of the earliest large boot and shoe factories in Kettering and was built in the Italianate style, the fashionable one for factories in the town, no doubt recalling the splendid Manfield factory in Northampton of 1857 (demolished 1982). This example is one of the earliest and most impressive boot and shoe factories to survive and it retains its fine external appearance.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 492712
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Morrison, K, Bond, A, Built to Last: The Buildings of the Northamptonshire Boot and Shoe Industry, (2004), 12-14
Other
Northamptonshire Boot and Shoe Industry Report,
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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