Listed Building: Barratt Shoe Factory (14/216 & 11/602)

Shoe and boot factory. Front range facing Kingsthorpe Road dated 1913. Macvicar Anderson for Barratts Shoes in an exuberantly Neo-Baroque style. Stone, brick, terracotta details; steel frame. 3 storeys. Symmetrical front of 9 bays defined by full height pilaster buttresses. Stone plinth. Central doorway framed by a projecting porch with broken segmental pediment supported on Roman Ionic columns and deep entablatures with carved frieze blocks. Large arched openings in stone to either side with metal framed 3-light mullion and transom windows except for end bay to left which has cart entry under similar arch with fanlight grille of radiating metal bars. Stone spandrels above arches divided by raised key blocks. First and second floors bays are each subdivided by an intermediate pier. Pilaster butresses and piers have alternating bands of brick and stone. Metal frame casement windows with transoms on first floor and stone spandrels above, with carved aprons. Lower windows on second floor except for the bay to either side of central bay. These have tall windows crowned by stone segmental pedimented features with boldly moulded wreaths enclosing inscriptions: "Estd/1903" on left, "Built/1913" on right. A similar pedimented feature over each end bay enclosing a circular window in wreathed frame with side drops. Between pedimented features to left and right, a dentil eaves cornice crowned by balustrades of open stone letters: "FOOTSHAPE" to left and "BOOT WORKS" to right. A circular clock set in a segmental headed frame over the central bay. Stone and brick gate piers, brick stone capped plinth for former boundary railing. The large factory extension to the rear of the front block is not of special interest.

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Feb 17 2014 10:36AM