Clay Cellars Studio
CLAY CELLARS STUDIO, POTTERY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1165512
- Date first listed:
- 28-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Clay Cellars Studio
- Statutory Address:
- CLAY CELLARS STUDIO, POTTERY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1165512
- Date first listed:
- 28-Apr-1987
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 01-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Clay Cellars Studio
- Statutory Address 1:
- CLAY CELLARS STUDIO, POTTERY ROAD
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:
- CLAY CELLARS STUDIO, POTTERY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kingsteignton
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 86911 72576
Details
KINGSTEIGNTON
1515/5/146 POTTERY ROAD 28-APR-87 KINGSTEIGNTON CLAY CELLARS STUDIO (Formerly listed as: NEWTON ROAD KINGSTEIGNTON RANGE OF CELLARS SOUTH OF THE CLAY CEL LARS OCCUPIED BY A J AUTOBODIES)
II Former clay cellars. Circa 1843.
MATERIALS: Constructed of local grey limestone rubble. It has been re-roofed with slate.
PLAN: A single storey rectangular building comprising two clay cellars with opposing doors.
EXTERIOR: The clay cellar has thick, battered walls to withstand the weight of the clay. The two doorways to the front (south) have wooden lintels and the two doorways at the rear (north) for receiving the clay have timber lintels and stone relieving arches.
INTERIOR: Internally there are king post roof trusses although some of the timbers have been replaced and many of the purlins removed.
HISTORY: In the late C18 the Stover Canal was built through the Bovey Basin for transporting ball clay and in 1841-3 Lord Clifford of Ugbrooke Park instructed his agent, Henry Knight to cut the Hackney Canal, including a tidal lock, for the transport of ball clay on the Clifford Estate. The Hackney Canal was opened in 1843 and the associated Hackney Clay Cellars, of which these two now survive, appear to date from this period. The cellars were used to store the locally-quarried ball clay which was then transported to Teignmouth for shipment via the canal and the River Teign. The Hackney Canal closed in 1929.
SOURCES: Rolt, L T C, The Potters' Field. A history of the South Devon ball clay industry (1974)
REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: The former clay cellars are designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * An important and rare survival of two mid-C19 Hackney Clay Cellars used for the storage of ball clay * The clay cellars retain distinctive design elements including the massive battered walls to retain the weight of the clay and their opposing doors * They form an integral part of the nationally important industrial landscape of the South Devon ball clay industry
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 85404
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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