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Latitude: 52.6186 / 52°37'6"N
Longitude: 1.3187 / 1°19'7"E
OS Eastings: 624750
OS Northings: 307482
OS Grid: TG247074
Mapcode National: GBR WDY.YS
Mapcode Global: WHMTN.7F7W
Plus Code: 9F43J899+CF
Entry Name: Timber-drying bottle kiln at NGR TG2475007481
Listing Date: 11 July 1996
Last Amended: 21 December 2021
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1268401
English Heritage Legacy ID: 461866
ID on this website: 101268401
Location: Trowse Newton, Norwich, Norfolk, NR1
County: Norfolk
District: Norwich
Electoral Ward/Division: Stoke Holy Cross
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Traditional County: Norfolk
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Norfolk
Church of England Parish: Trowse St Andrew
Church of England Diocese: Norwich
Tagged with: Kiln
Timber-drying bottle kiln, built sometime between 1908 and 1929 by J and J Colman Ltd of Norwich.
Timber-drying bottle kiln, built sometime between 1908 and 1929 by J and J Colman Ltd of Norwich.
MATRERIALS: of red brick with dressings of blue engineering brick.
PLAN: it is circular-on-plan with a short porchway to the firing/loading doorway on the north-east side.
EXTERIOR: the kiln has a bottle-shaped profile and the porchway has a semi-circular tunnel-vaulted ceiling and a metal top-hung sliding door. Around the perimeter there are four circular and three rectangular ventilation holes.
INTERIOR: the kiln has a cavity-wall construction for ventilation. The inner skin rises to a height of 2.95m and is constructed in bricks made by EJ and JP Pearson Ltd of Stourbridge.
The industrial origins of the Deal Ground, Norwich, dates from the second half of the C19 when it was developed as a timber yard by J J and Colman Ltd; Colman's world renowned condiment-milling business occupied a large site known as Carrow World immediately to the west, on the west side of the main Norwich to London railway line. The name of the site is derived from the fact that crates and barrels for Colman's products were made in the yard from 'deal' or softwood imported from the Baltic to Yarmouth and then brought by wherry up the River Yare. In the early C20, as the demand for timber increased, a kiln was erected on the site to dry freshly-sawn green wood so that it could be used immediately. An analysis of Ordnance Survey 25" maps of the site, coupled with the fact that the inner skin of the kiln was constructed in firebricks made by EJ and JP Pearson Ltd of Stourbridge, which was active in the production of these products until 1916, suggests that the kiln was built sometime between 1908 and 1916. By 1938, a second kiln had been added to the site, it being demolished sometime between 1958 and 1968. The timber yard closed in 1995 when Colman's merged with Unilever.
The bottle kiln at the Deal Ground, Norwich, built sometime between 1908 and 1929 for J & J Colman Ltd, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
Architectural interest:
* it is little altered and still illustrates the industrial process for which it was built;
* as a rare example of the building type nationally, and the only known example in Norfolk.
Historic interest:
* for its association with Colman's of Norwich, the world-renowned condiment-milling manufacturer.
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