Description

BUTE STREET
1.
5123 (south-east side)

TL 0921 2/8 No 64
II GV

2.
Hat factory dated 1889, in a florid neo-Jacobean style. Luton grey bricks
with stone dressings; Welsh slate roof. Three storeys, 3 bay facade, with
pilasters to corners and demarcating central bay. Above it is a pediment
with a central stone-edged roundel. It is stone-coped with corner pilasters
and decorated moulded brick panel below. Dentil eaves and cornice. The second
floor outer bay windows are casements in architrave surrounds. The centre
bay has a pair of windows with semi-circular arched heads in a stone surround.
Cill band. The first floor windows are all of the same style, the outer 2
of 3 lights, the centre one of 2 lights. They have stone surrounds with mullions
and high level transoms. Above them is a decorated panel with a cartouche
and swags of flowers under a shallow brick and stone arch. The ground floor
consists of a monumental central entrance with 2 flanking windows and a left-hand
secondary doorway. The whole is under a continuous entablature and dentil
cornice. The doorway has a segmental pediment. Each element is divided by
pseudo-marble Corinthian pilasters. There are brick stall risers with arched
openings to the cellar.

Listing NGR: TL0925321468

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26408392

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)