Building record 7203/20/1 - Boot and Shoe Factory, Fitzwilliam Street (New English)

A tall three-storey shoe factory that was constructed circa 1880, and is set back on the north side of Fitzwilliam Street. The site is accessible via a narrow lane passing between street frontage houses. The south front has four pier and panel bays, each incorporating a pair of tall openings on each floor. The factory is constructed in orange brick and has windows with blue segmental heads, brick sills and cast-iron frames. The original entrance occupies the left hand position in the eastern most bay. The taking-in doorways were situated on the first and second floors in the same bay, but in the right-hand position where they have subsequently been converted into windows. There is the scar of a former crane on the eastern most pier. The factory latterly formed part of C.W Horrells' works in Fitzwilliam Street (SP 96 85) and by the 1970s it was linked physically by extensions to the Horrell works.

{1} Boot and shoe factory, Fitzwilliam Street. Three storey, four bay boot and shoe factory to the rear of Fitzwilliam Street. It was in use by Sileeles and Co. in 1900. The building is now out of use. Film 3 photo 5,6.

{3} The factory is sited on land behind a row of terraced houses and was until recently in close proximity/ part of a large complex of shoe manufature demolished wihtout record.The factory is brick built with a Welsh slate roof, 3 floors and an attic. A numbering system existed in the attic storey but the purpose is unclear - presumably storage.

{6} Photo dated January 1998;

<1> Ballinger J., 1999, Northamptonshire Extensive Urban Survey: Industrial Period, (unchecked) (Digital archive). SNN4.

<2> 1999, Building Plan?, (unchecked) (Plan). SNN57951.

<3> ELLISON M., 1999, SMR Report Form, (unchecked) (SMR Report Form). SNN49145.

<4> ENGLISH HERITAGE, 2000, Northamptonshire Boot and Shoe Survey, Site 59 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN105075.

<5> Historic England, Undated, New English, 23 Fitzwilliam Street, Rushden, BF103825 (Archive). SNN114082.

<6> Photographs of buildings in Rushden (Photographs). SNN114607.

Record last edited

Jan 25 2023 11:14AM