Building record 1160/73/1 - Connaught House, 32 Connaught Street

J. Sale Leather Warehouse (Formerly F. Cook's South Place Factory). A three-storey boot and shoe factory on the west side of Connaught Street. The factory is built of brick with a pitched roof covered in Welsh slate. Ordnance Survey and other mapping, suggest that it was built c.1880

{1} Possible C19th boot & shoe factory; three-storey brick building with slate roof at 32 Connaught Street; exterior doors on top floor & ground floor; top storey with beam for hoist; present owners Crask Slinn Company;

{2} Possible C19th boot & shoe factory at 32 Connaught Street;

{3} Possible C19th century boot & shoe factory at 32 Connaught Street; present occupiers are Crask Slinn Company;

{4} c.1880 factory consisting of three buildings, an example of the development of a medium-sized shoe factory from a small workshop.

<1> Starmer G.H., 1967, CBA Record Cards: Industrial Archaeology in Northamptonshire, (checked) (Recording Form (Not SMR)). SNN565.

<2> Starmer G.H., 1973, National Register of Industrial Monuments, Recorded by GH Starmer, 15-Apr-1967, Record No.NN27 (Catalogue). SNN571.

<3> Starmer G.H., 1982, National Register of Industrial Monuments, (checked) (Catalogue). SNN563.

<4> ENGLISH HERITAGE, 2000, Northamptonshire Boot and Shoe Survey, (part checked) (Catalogue). SNN105075.

<5> Historic England, Undated, Connaught House, 32 Connaught Street, Northampton, BF103472 (Archive). SNN113486.

<6> Historic England, Undated, National Record of Industrial Monuments (NRIM): Index Cards, NRI01 (Archive). SNN113469.

Record last edited

May 23 2022 11:40AM