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Latitude: 52.1866 / 52°11'11"N
Longitude: -2.2183 / 2°13'5"W
OS Eastings: 385172
OS Northings: 254288
OS Grid: SO851542
Mapcode National: GBR 1G4.XMY
Mapcode Global: VH92T.H9MK
Plus Code: 9C4V5QPJ+MM
Entry Name: Royal Worcester Porcelain Works: Pan Grinding Shop and Attached Buildings
Listing Date: 15 March 1990
Last Amended: 12 June 2001
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1390149
English Heritage Legacy ID: 489119
ID on this website: 101390149
Location: Diglis, Worcester, Worcestershire, WR1
County: Worcestershire
District: Worcester
Electoral Ward/Division: Cathedral
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Worcester
Traditional County: Worcestershire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Worcestershire
Church of England Parish: Worcester St Nicholas and All Saints
Church of England Diocese: Worcester
Tagged with: Architectural structure
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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