Monument record 7198/138/1 - Regent Works, Regent Street (Now Kettering Bedding Centre)

Boot and shoe factory, now bedding showrooms. Date 1890. For Hales and Jowitt, boot and shoe manufacturers. Red brick with blue brick plinth and stone and blue brick dressings. A fire on 13 May 2019 destroyed the works completely and the remains were subsequently demolished

{1} Industrial building / factory, Regent Street. Three storey building with elaborate frontage dated 1890. Has a range of industrial building to the rear including north-lit sheds. There are some elaborate three storey terraces adjacent to the factory. Film 10, photo 10.

{2} 3 storey structure, 8 bay symmetrical frontage, with large iron windows with iron mullions. Now a bedding showroom.

{3} Boot and shoe factory, now bedding showrooms. Date 1890. For Hales and Jowitt, boot and shoe manufacturers. Red brick with blue brick plinth and stone and blue brick dressings. Tile roofs. Plan of 3-storey main range to street with single-storey workshop ranges to rear. 3 storeys. 9-window ranges at 1st and 2nd floors (some paired windows) of cast-iron windows either under brick segmental arches or flat stone lintels. Those under brick arches have very fine margin lights, those under flat arches have fine ornamental mullions and all are original. The windows to ground floor are nearly all paired under flat stone, now painted, lintels with similar mullions. Office entrance to for left under hood with curved pediment supported on brackets and, to far right, goods entrance under basket arch. The rear of the front block also retains fine fenestration similar to the front and a gable with taking-in doors on each floor and a hinged hoist on the top floor. Various single-storey workshop ranges to rear.
INTERIOR. This retains the original internal divisions and joinery including open-well staircases with stick balustrades and turned or square newels.

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

<2> Northamptonshire Industrial Archaeology Group, 2001, NIAG Industrial Gazetteer, (unchecked) (Draft). SNN101121.

<3> DCMS, 2004, Listing Schedule, (checked) (Schedule). SNN104967.

<4> Morrison K.A.; Bond A., 2004, Built To Last? The Buildings of The Northamptonshire Boot and Shoe Industry, Fig.59 (unchecked) (Book). SNN104903.

<5> Bellamy B, 1993-4, Boot and Shoe factories in Kettering, P 11 & 12 (Photographs). SNN111256.

<6> ENGLISH HERITAGE, 2000, Northamptonshire Boot and Shoe Survey, KETT15 (Catalogue). SNN105075.

<7> Historic England, 37 Regent Street (formerly Regent Works), Northampton, BF103554 (Archive). SNN114943.

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Jul 14 2023 1:20PM