Description

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-).

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17548213

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Recommended Books

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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
• 
  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas