Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Middleport Pottery (Burgess and Leigh) at Wikipedia
• Middleport Pottery (Burgess and Leigh) official website
• Middleport Pottery at Wikipedia
• Middleport Pottery official website
• Wikidata IDs Q17555304 Q24705071

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