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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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:: 11-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

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: 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-).

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Legacy System number:: 489119
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.