Building record 7198/44/1 - Atlas Leather Co, 115 Stamford Road

This leather factory was built circa 1915 on Stamford Road for the Atlas Leather Company. The three storeyed range fronting Stamford Road consists of four bays in orange coloured brick with a slate covered roof. A later two-storeyed range at the rear has steel framed windows and a corrugated asbestos roof.

{1} Office accommodation to the frontage with very basic architectural embellishment, but very plain. The rest comprises north lit sheds now in use by a number of business including 'County Footwear UK Ltd Quality Shoe Manufacturers' Building established 1892. Film 6, photo 21.

{2} The Atlas leather Co was formed in 1915 and specialised in russett kip butts, dull sides, box sides, box shoulders, box bellies and calf. Between 1929 and 1937 it was taken over by Clipstone and Whitwell, who manufactured shoelaces.
Three-storeyed frontage with four bays, the central two carried up to a gable. Constructed from orange brick with limestone ashlar dressings and some blue brick. The ground-floor openings have keyed segmental arches with the exception of the entrance in the second bay from the west. This has a lintel inscribed with the word 'office'. To the west there is a yard entrance and to the east two large windows. The two upper floors are articulated by brick piers at each end and framing the two central bays, rising to square stone kneelers. On the first floor, and on the second floor in the two central bays, the windows have chamfered lintels and original timber mullion-and-transom frames. Between the first and second-floor windows of the central bays an ashlar signboard has the legend 'Atlas Leather Co'.

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

<2> ENGLISH HERITAGE, 2000, Northamptonshire Boot and Shoe Survey, Kettering Site 31 (checked) (Catalogue). SNN105075.

<3> Bellamy B, 1993-4, Boot and Shoe factories in Kettering, P22 (Photographs). SNN111256.

<4> Historic England, 115 Stamford Road, Kettering, BF103847 (Archive). SNN115293.

Record last edited

Feb 5 2025 7:18PM