Middleport Pottery (Burgess and Leigh)
MIDDLEPORT POTTERY (BURGESS AND LEIGH), PORT STREET, ST6 3PE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1297939
- Date first listed:
- 20-Aug-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Middleport Pottery (Burgess and Leigh)
- Statutory Address:
- MIDDLEPORT POTTERY (BURGESS AND LEIGH), PORT STREET, ST6 3PE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1297939
- Date first listed:
- 20-Aug-1979
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Mar-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Middleport Pottery (Burgess and Leigh)
- Statutory Address 1:
- MIDDLEPORT POTTERY (BURGESS AND LEIGH), PORT STREET, ST6 3PE
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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:
- MIDDLEPORT POTTERY (BURGESS AND LEIGH), PORT STREET, ST6 3PE
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:
- SJ8603749304
Details
SJ 8649 SW,
613-1/11/104
STOKE ON TRENT,
MIDDLEPORT,
PORT STREET (south-west side),
Middleport Pottery (Burgess & Leigh)
(Formerly Listed as: PORT STREET Middleport Pottery: Bottle Kiln in premises occupied by Burgess Leigh Ltd.)
20/08/79
II*
Pottery works. 1888-1889. Brick and terracotta with plain tiled
roofs. Main range housing printing shops, offices and show
rooms, to Port Street, of two storeys and 34 bays, articulated
by advanced gables at intervals, with pediments carried on
terracotta scrolls containing Diocletian windows. All windows
have double-ring cambered heads, and are grouped in pairs or
singly giving a rhythm to the facade.
Entrance beneath pedimented gable to the right, with double
stepped brick arch and narrower foot-door alongside. Cartouche
in pediment with date and name: "Middleport Pottery".
Terracotta eaves cornice. Axial stacks.
A series of workshop buildings arranged within the rear yard
still enables the original production processes to be traced,
with the former engine house to the east, the preparation and
making areas adjacent and to the north, and the single
surviving biscuit kiln at the centre of the site, with a broad
circular hovel. Production process finished at the western
side of the site, and there is a surviving warehouse range and
loading cranes alongside the canal.
The factory was built as a new complex for an established
company and was seen at the time as a model factory designed
with a logical production plan incorporating linear movement
with some sideways movement reflecting the quantity and range
of production on the site.
(Stoke on Trent Historic Buildings Survey; Baker D: Potworks:
London: 1991-: P.89-93).
Listing NGR: SJ8603749304
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 384466
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Baker, D, Potworks: The Industrial Architecture of the Staffordshire Potteries, (1991), 89-93
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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