Building record 3738/0/31 - 46 Broad Street, Earls Barton

46 Broad Street is a two storeyed leather workers workshop or small shoe factory located to the rear of Nos. 42 and 44, a mirror-pair of houses fronting Broad Street to the north. The workshop is reached via a lane serving a yard behind, where a terrace of derelict one-up, one- down pre-1884 cottages survive. It has an L-plan, with elevations of five bays to the north and three to the east. A later toilet block has been demolished at the western end and a small engine-house in the re-entrant on the north side has also been demolished. Built in the late 19th/early 20th century, the output appears to have been childrens shoes.

{1} Two-storeyed workshop or small factory located to the rear of No 42 and 44. It has an L-plan, with elevations of five bays to the north and three to the east. The windows have continuous timber lintels, chamfered blue brick sills and cast-iron frames. A later toilet block has been demolished at the western end and a small engine house has been demolished in the re-entrant on the south side. Children's shoes were made here. During the Second World War a grinder and lathe were installed and submarine parts were manufactured.

{2} Constructed in the period between 1885 and 1889. In 1929 the workshop was listed in Kelly’s Directory of the Shoe Trades as FJ Dunkley (children’s shoes). It was known as the ‘cack shop’, ‘cacks’ being children’s shoes. No fixtures or fittings remained from the boot and shoe period of the buildings' use; plans & photographs;

<1> ENGLISH HERITAGE, 2000, Northamptonshire Boot and Shoe Survey, Earls Barton Site 5 (Catalogue). SNN105075.

<2> Prentice, J & Walker, C, 2015, Building recording at 42-54 Broad Street, Earls Barton, Northamptonshire (Report). SNN111336.

<3> Horne, B (editor), 2016, South Midlands Archaeology (46), p. 35 (Journal). SNN111326.

<4> Historic England, Undated, 42-52 Broad Street, Earls Barton, BF103832 (Archive). SNN114618.

Record last edited

Feb 5 2025 7:33PM