Monument record 7196/20 - Saxby Moyes and Co.

This leather dressing works erected circa 1890, originally consisted of two parallel two-storeyed rangs gabled north-south. There is an eight bay elevation to Saffron Road on the east, and eight closely spaced windows divided between the two gables facing Spring gardens to the south. On the south front there is an entrance in the easternmost bay of the western range. To the east there is a taking-in doorway in the third bay from the north. Each gable seems originally to have had an occulus. Now demolished.

{1} Leather dressing works, School Board Place/ Spring Gardens (now Saffron Road)
Leather dressing works on School Board Place now in use by Mark Saxby Ltd. Described in trade directory of 1924 as Saxby Moyes and Co (curriers). The frontage has been rendered, but the building itself appears to survive intact. Film 6, photo 14-15.

{2} This leather dressing works erected circa 1890, originally consisted of two parallel two-storeyed rangs gabled north-south. There is an eight bay elevation to Saffron Road on the east, and eight closely spaced windows divided between the two gables facing Spring gardens to the south. On the south front there is an entrance in the easternmost bay of the western range. To the east there is a taking-in doorway in the third bay from the north. Each gable seems originally to have had an occulus.

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

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

<3> Historic England, Undated, Mark Saxby Ltd, Spring Gardens, Higham Ferrers, BF103898 (Archive). SNN114325.

Record last edited

Nov 14 2022 11:16AM