Falcon Works Pot Bank Occupied By Portmerion Potteries Limited

FALCON WORKS POT BANK OCCUPIED BY PORTMERION POTTERIES LIMITED, STURGESS STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1210472
Date first listed:
20-Aug-1979
List Entry Name:
Falcon Works Pot Bank Occupied By Portmerion Potteries Limited
Statutory Address:
FALCON WORKS POT BANK OCCUPIED BY PORTMERION POTTERIES LIMITED, STURGESS STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1210472
Date first listed:
20-Aug-1979
Date of most recent amendment:
15-Mar-1993
List Entry Name:
Falcon Works Pot Bank Occupied By Portmerion Potteries Limited
Statutory Address 1:
FALCON WORKS POT BANK OCCUPIED BY PORTMERION POTTERIES LIMITED, STURGESS STREET

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
FALCON WORKS POT BANK OCCUPIED BY PORTMERION POTTERIES LIMITED, STURGESS STREET

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

District:
City of Stoke-on-Trent (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SJ8741144926

Details

STOKE ON TRENT

SJ84SE STURGESS STREET
613-1/6/140 (North West side)
20/08/79 Falcon Works Pot Bank occupied by
Portmerion Potteries Ltd
(Formerly Listed as:
LONGTON
Falcon Works Main Block on NW side
of Yard)
(Formerly Listed as:
LONGTON
Two bottle kilns at Falcon Works
premises occupied by Portmerion
Potteries Ltd)

GV II

Remains of pot bank, 1902-1905. Brick with plain tiled roofs.
Surviving buildings comprise the kiln block and 2 workshop and
warehouse ranges on opposite sides of a yard. Single-storeyed
kiln range of 9 bays with 2 downdraught glost ovens with
circular hovels to the east of the site, and to the west, a
3-storeyed workshop range of 18 bays with doorways in the end
bays, and fixed-light windows with double ring cambered heads.
Stone plaque of falcon in gable apex. Further workshop block
to S of 3 storeys and 12 bays with similar detailing, built at
about the same time. The works were built by Goss as an
extension to London Road works established in 1858.
(Stoke on Trent Bottle Ovens Survey: Goss Works).


Listing NGR: SJ8741144926

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
384489
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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