Monument record 7198/418 - Unique Boot Factory (Loake Bros Ltd), 81-97 Wood Street

One of the early single storey shoe factories, built in 1894, Loake's shoe factory has a 2 storey frontage with Dutch gables. It is one of the few shoe factories still in production under the same family name, manufacturing men's high quality welted footwear

Loake Bros Shoe Factory, Wood Street
Loake Bros Ltd Shoe Factory dated 1894. Very elaborate frontage with series of north lights to the rear. Still in use as a shoe factory by the same company. Film 9, photo 17-20 Film 13, photo 11. (1)

{2} Factory completed in 1895 with a Crossley 'Otto' gas engine installed from new. One of the earliest factories in the county to be designed for single-storey working. Map evidence shows it was built more or less to ots present plan. Two-storey entrance front on Wood Street built in orange-red brick with a blue-brick plinth. Factory floor is contained in seven single-storey north-lit sheds.

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

<2> ENGLISH HERITAGE, 2000, Northamptonshire Boot and Shoe Survey, Kettering site 6 (Catalogue). SNN105075.

<3> Bellamy B, 1993-4, Boot and Shoe factories in Kettering, P45 (Photographs). SNN111256.

Record last edited

Jul 12 2023 1:52PM