Factory Building (Bathcraft)
FACTORY BUILDING (BATHCRAFT), HAVELOCK STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391025
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-2004
- List Entry Name:
- Factory Building (Bathcraft)
- Statutory Address:
- FACTORY BUILDING (BATHCRAFT), HAVELOCK STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391025
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-2004
- List Entry Name:
- Factory Building (Bathcraft)
- Statutory Address 1:
- FACTORY BUILDING (BATHCRAFT), HAVELOCK STREET
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:
- FACTORY BUILDING (BATHCRAFT), HAVELOCK STREET
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 86759 79335
Details
728/0/10008 HAVELOCK STREET 23-APR-04 (South,off) Factory Building (Bathcraft)
II Boot and shoe factory/workshop, now other commercial uses. c.1860, in 2 phases. Red brick with blue brick floor bands and slate roof. L-plan. First phase range projecting to left to rear. 3 storeys. Front to alley leading south off Havelock Street has a 4-window range of casements under brick segmental arches to first and second floors and a taking-in door to right end. Door and casement on ground floor. The other sides have similar casements and the gable ends are blank. HISTORY. Havelock Street was laid out c.1857 and both ranges are depicted on the OS maps of 1884, 1899 and 1924. It is difficult to identify small masters from C19 local Directories, but it is noted that Clipstone and Whitwell, leather lace manufacturers, were here in 1929. SOURCES. EH Northamptonshire Boot and Shoe Survey, Site Report No.17. Morrison, Kathryn A., with Bond, Ann, 'Built to Last? The Boot and Shoe Buildings of Northamptonshire', forthcoming, pp.10-12, and fig.24.
This is a very early example of a small 3-storey boot and shoe factory built at the back of houses and possibly associated with them. It is probably the best example to survive in Northamptonshire of this size of factory which is slightly larger than the individual back garden workshop but much smaller than the other factories identified as of special interest, e.g. Kettering Bedding Centre in nearby Regent Street. It is a particularly good example of the small-scale aspect of the industry which developed in Kettering in parallel with the larger factories and the home-based indivdual worker.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 492714
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Morrison, K, Bond, A, Built to Last: The Buildings of the Northamptonshire Boot and Shoe Industry, (2004), 10-12
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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