Former Fountain Place Works

FORMER FOUNTAIN PLACE WORKS, FOUNTAIN PLACE, ST6 4RS

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1297935
Date first listed:
02-Oct-1951
List Entry Name:
Former Fountain Place Works
Statutory Address:
FORMER FOUNTAIN PLACE WORKS, FOUNTAIN PLACE, ST6 4RS
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1297935
Date first listed:
02-Oct-1951
Date of most recent amendment:
15-Mar-1993
List Entry Name:
Former Fountain Place Works
Statutory Address 1:
FORMER FOUNTAIN PLACE WORKS, FOUNTAIN PLACE, ST6 4RS

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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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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
FORMER FOUNTAIN PLACE WORKS, FOUNTAIN PLACE, ST6 4RS

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:
SJ 86697 49785

Details

SJ 8649 NE,
613-1/10/7

STOKE ON TRENT,
BURSLEM,
Fountain Place (west side),
Former Fountain Place Works

(Formerly Listed as: FOUNTAIN PLACE, Burslem Fountain Buildings)

02/10/51

GV

II

Frontage range of former pot bank. 1789. For the potter Enoch
Wood. Brick with tiled roofs. 3-storeyed, former entrance in
pedimented bay across angle, with flanking ranges to west and
north. Inserted shop front to ground floor of corner section,
and large display window over in moulded architrave, then
tripartite window above, with Doric pilasters. Dentilled
pediment with roundel perhaps once showing date. Late C19 shop
front in 7-bay western range, and sash-type windows with stone
sills and flat-arched heads with incised voussoirs. Inserted
windows to ground floor in northern range of nine bays. Formerly
the works of Enoch Wood, and built by him in 1789.

(The Victoria History of the Counties of England: Pugh R B:
Staffordshire: Oxford: 1963-).


Listing NGR: SJ8669749785

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Legacy System number:
384392
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Stafford, (1963)

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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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© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2026. OS AC0000815036. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100024900.© British Crown and SeaZone Solutions Limited 2026. All rights reserved. Licence number 102006.006.

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