Royal Worcester Porcelain Works: Pan Grinding Shop and Attached Buildings
ROYAL WORCESTER PORCELAIN WORKS: PAN GRINDING SHOP AND ATTACHED BUILDINGS, SEVERN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1390149
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Royal Worcester Porcelain Works: Pan Grinding Shop and Attached Buildings
- Statutory Address:
- ROYAL WORCESTER PORCELAIN WORKS: PAN GRINDING SHOP AND ATTACHED BUILDINGS, SEVERN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1390149
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1990
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 12-Jun-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Royal Worcester Porcelain Works: Pan Grinding Shop and Attached Buildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROYAL WORCESTER PORCELAIN WORKS: PAN GRINDING SHOP AND ATTACHED BUILDINGS, SEVERN STREET
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:
- ROYAL WORCESTER PORCELAIN WORKS: PAN GRINDING SHOP AND ATTACHED BUILDINGS, SEVERN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Worcester (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SO8517254288
Details
WORCESTER
SO8554SW SEVERN STREET
620-1/20/512 Royal Worcester Porcelain
15/03/90 Works: pan grinding shop
and attached buildings
(Formerly Listed as:
SEVERN STREET
Pan Grinding Shop, Engine
House)
(Formerly Listed as:
SEVERN STREET
Boiler House and Chimney
(Royal Worcester Porcelain
Works))
GV II*
Pan grinding shop with attached engine house, boiler house and
chimney. 1862-70 for Royal Porcelain Company, modified c1970's.
Red brick with slate roofs.
PLAN: a long, narrow range running west-east with 3-storey
grinding house, 2-storey engine house and single-storey boiler
house respectively, the latter with hexagonal brick chimney.
EXTERIOR: elevations to grinding shop have rusticated pilasters
with recessed panels and segmental windows within the bays.
Parapets to all the buildings. The boiler house has paired,
divided segmental windows within segmental-headed recessed
panels.
INTERIOR: the pans for grinding bone are intact with their
devices on two floors which are of cast-iron and jack arch
construction. The ground floor is an undercroft for the gear
drives. The engine house floor is intact, with the heavy joist
which supported the engine beam and he gap in the floor for the
beam itself. Cantilevered stair. Early electrical switchgear. The
boiler house was modified in the late C20 with the insertion of
gas fired calcinating kilns.
This is the only one of 2 known intact examples of this type of
building, the other being in Stoke on Trent. (Shirley's Etruscan
Bone and Flint Mill, Etruria).
(Jones R: Porcelain in Worcester 1751-1951: An Illustrated Social
History: Worcester: 1993-; RCHME: Potworks, The Industrial
Architecture of the Staffordshire Pott: London: 1991-).
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 489119
- 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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