Monument record 7198/67/2 - XL Works, Sackville Street

The XL works is a boot and shoe factory that appears to have been built in the late 1890s adjacent to the earlier Glendon Engine Works, which also survives. It stands on the north side of Sackville Street and consists of a three storeyed range of five pier and panel bays and to its west a two storeyed range of three and a half bays. The brickwork is continuous between the two ranges. The three storeyed range has two semicircular headed windows per floor except on the second floor where there is just one segmental headed window per bay. Detailing is in blue brick.

{1} The XL Works (as it was known in 1916) appaears to have been built in the late 1890s adjacent to the earlier Glendon Engine Works, which also survives. It stands on the north side of Sackville Street and consists of a three-storeyed range of five pier-and-panel bays, and to its west a two-storeyed range of three and a half bays.
1884- Glendon Engine Works
1899- shoe factory shown
1906- Allen & Caswell, boot and shoe mfrs
1916- Thompson Bros, shoe mfrs

<1> ENGLISH HERITAGE, 2000, Northamptonshire Boot and Shoe Survey, KETT56 (Catalogue). SNN105075.

<2> Bellamy B, 1993-4, Boot and Shoe factories in Kettering, P38 (Photographs). SNN111256.

<3> Historic England, Holyoake Court, 39-51 Sackville Street, Kettering, BF103857 (Archive). SNN115265.

<4> Historic England, Undated, Northampton Boot and Shoe Industry Project, EHC01/044 (Archive). SNN113277.

Record last edited

Feb 17 2025 6:11PM