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Latitude: 52.2413 / 52°14'28"N
Longitude: -0.8903 / 0°53'24"W
OS Eastings: 475870
OS Northings: 260923
OS Grid: SP758609
Mapcode National: GBR BW8.HQB
Mapcode Global: VHDRZ.JX6Q
Plus Code: 9C4X64R5+GV
Entry Name: Former Globe Leather Works
Listing Date: 2 December 2003
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1390678
English Heritage Legacy ID: 491159
ID on this website: 101390678
Location: Northampton, West Northamptonshire, NN1
County: West Northamptonshire
Electoral Ward/Division: Castle
Parish: Northampton
Built-Up Area: Northampton
Traditional County: Northamptonshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Northamptonshire
Church of England Parish: Northampton St Michael and All Angels with St Edmund
Church of England Diocese: Peterborough
Tagged with: Architectural structure
725/0/10039 DUNSTER STREET
02-DEC-03 4-6
Former Globe Leather Works
GV II
Former curriers and leather merchants works. Late 1880's. Red brick with stone dressing and parapeted slate roofs. C17 Low Countries style. 3 gables facing, the central more ornamental with canted pilasters and elaborately shaped gable. 3 storeys with basement and attic. 12-window range at first floor with further window on left over entrance door. Casements to left and centre, iron framed windows to right. Iron framed windows on second floor to whole fa?ade and small windows in gable attics. Ground floor has casements to left and centre gables and 1/1 sashes to right with centre left doorway, all these last with stone moulded cornices, the doorway with stone moulded doorcase. Carriage entrance to far right.
INTERIOR. Iron columns and joists support the various floors and there is a queen post roof construction. Upper floor has evidence of slatted floor construction, probably associated with drying.
The Globe Leather works was most probably built for James Collier and Co., a firm of Northampton curriers and fancy-leather merchants established in 1878. The firm operated the factory until the 1950's. It is a finely detailed building in the contemporary London 'Pont Street Dutch' style, with the allusions to wealthy C17 Dutch and Flemish merchants houses and warehouses being particularly appropriate to the boot and shoe industry's rapid expansion. The Goad plans show that the west range was a warehouse and that the other 2 ranges constituted the factory with leather drying on the second and attic floors. The building forms part of the most significant group of buildings of the boot and shoe industry in Northampton.
REFERENCES.
English Heritage Northamptonshire Boot and Shoe Industry Report, pp.4 and 14-15, and Site Report No. 52.
Goad Insurance maps 1899, 1905 and 1912.
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