Listed Buildings
in Stoke-on-Trent and area
Round House, Etruria
Area
Etruria |
Street
Etruria Road |
Heritage No.
38a |
Grade
II* |
Date Listed
19 April 1972 |
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Building:
Round House at the site of old
Wedgwood factory |
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Location:
STOKE ON TRENT SJ84NE |
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Description:
Drum Shaped structure, openings to side, brick and domed
tiled roof.. |
Round House at Wedgwood's Etruria works
photo: © Mr Clive Shenton
- Aug 2001
Round House, formerly part of the Wedgwood
Pottery works, and built circa 1769. Brick with plain tiled
roof.
Circular in plan, on 2 storeys, with ground floor
entrance and a series of windows with flat arched gauged brick
heads, some blocked, and not all on the same level. Oculi to
first floor.
Said to have been used variously for grinding raw
materials, as a counting house, and as a stable.
photo of the roundhouse which clearly
shows the subsidence which has resulted
in the roundhouse being below the canal level
[in the background is the Shelton Steel Works]
photo: mid 1970's by
Ken
Cubley
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