Front Building of Manfield Shoe Factory is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 January 1976. Factory.
Front Building of Manfield Shoe Factory
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-bastion-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Northampton North MP: Lucy Rigby (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 January 1976
- Type
- Factory
- Address
- Front Building of Manfield Shoe Factory, 369, Wellingborough Road, Northampton
- OS grid reference
- SP 771 613
- Coordinates
- 52.24482, -0.87147
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The front building of the Manfield Shoe Factory, built in 1890 by Charles Dorman, is one of the first factories in England designed to operate on a single floor. It features a Jacobean style, constructed from stone-dressed red brick, topped with a Westmorland slate roof and stone-coped gables. The central section, which projects, has three gables with stone finials, while each of the recessed single-storey wings also has three gables. The building includes stone mullioned and transomed casement windows, with eleven windows in the center and seven in each wing. The central entrance is accessed via stone steps and has a recessed elliptically arched porch beneath an oriel bay window.
Local climate
Front Building of Manfield Shoe Factory sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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