Wetheriggs Pottery
WETHERIGGS POTTERY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1145365
- Date first listed:
- 03-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Wetheriggs Pottery
- Statutory Address:
- WETHERIGGS POTTERY
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- Date:
- 2003-10-22
- Reference:
- IOE01/11429/16
- Rights:
- © Mr Gordon Furness. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1145365
- Date first listed:
- 03-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Wetheriggs Pottery
- Statutory Address 1:
- WETHERIGGS POTTERY
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- WETHERIGGS POTTERY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Clifton
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 55474 26281
Details
NY 52 NE CLIFTON WETHERIGGS
10/32 Wetheriggs Pottery
II
Kiln, workshops, drying shed, kiln room, steam house and blunger. 1855 as a brick and tileworks for the Brougham estate. Red brick walls, under pantile roofs with stone and brick chimney stacks. Single-storey buildings arranged in U-shape around a small courtyard, with attached steam house and blunger. Bee-hive kiln is within square brick building with plank doors. Adjoining long workshops have plank doors and casement windows. Right-angled range is divided into open-sided drying shed and enclosed kiln room. Rear steam house has plank doors and round-arched casement windows; tall square chimney stack. Adjoining blunger is a circular brick-lined pit with central pivoted paddle for mixing clay and water, powered by the steam engine in the steam house. A working pottery which continued using old methods of production until the mid C20. Now reopened as a working pottery, to which the public are admitted, preserving original machinery and traditional designs, but electrically fired kiln. See guide book, Wetheriggs Country Pottery, 1984. The present shop and house are not of special interest.
Listing NGR: NY5547426281
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 74236
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Wetheriggs Country Pottery, (1984)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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