LEACH POTTERY

LEACH POTTERY, B3306

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1031617
Date first listed:: 27-Feb-1998
List Entry Name:: LEACH POTTERY
Statutory Address:: LEACH POTTERY, B3306

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1031617
Date first listed:: 27-Feb-1998
List Entry Name:: LEACH POTTERY
Statutory Address 1:: LEACH POTTERY, B3306

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: LEACH POTTERY, B3306

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: St. Ives
National Grid Reference:: SW 50873 39942

Details

SW 53 NW 679/5/10003

ST IVES B3306 Leach Pottery

GV II

Pottery. 1921, for Bernard Leach. Stone rubble and rendered concrete blocks. Gable-ended scantle slate roofs, the kiln shed has louvred ridge ventilator. Brick gable end and axial stacks. PLAN: Long range comprising, kiln shed at SW end, throwing and glazing rooms with loft over at centre, and workshop with studio above at NE end. EXTERIOR: Single storey kiln shed at SW end has outshut on NW side and porch on SE front. Throwing and glazing rooms at centre, built of stone rubble and with sash windows. Workshop with studio above is cross-wing at NE end with external stairs to first floor doorway on SE gable end. INTERIOR: In the kiln shed is the brick 3-chambered climbing kiln designed by T. Matsubayashi in 1921 and rebuilt in 1923, a small tunnel kiln, an individual kiln and a modern gas kiln. In the glazing room there is a corner fireplace with a cambered brick arch with two small terracotta niches above. In the throwing room two of Leach's wheels; above is the drying loft. Over the workshop at the NE end is Leach's studio with access via external stairs. NOTE: The Leach Pottery was established by Bernard Leach, with the Japanese potter Hamada Shoji, on his return in 1920 from studying in Japan. SOURCE: Leach. Bernard, A Potter's Book; published 1940.

Listing NGR: SW5087339942

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Legacy System number:: 469086
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Leach, B, A Potter's Book, (1940)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.