Listed Buildings
in Stoke-on-Trent and area
Price & Kensington
Warehouse, Longport
Area
Longport |
Street
Newcastle Street |
Heritage No.
74 A |
Grade
II |
Date Listed
15 March 1993 |
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Building:
Price & Kensington
Factory - Warehouse |
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Location:
STOKE ON TRENT SJ84NE
NEWCASTLE STREET, Longport |
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Description:
Warehouse with adjacent pottery works, 19thC, Brick & hipped
plain tiled roof. |
Top Bridge Pottery (Price & Kensington)
The clay wharf and
warehouse - from the Trent & Mersey canal
photos: Steve Birks
2001
Warehouse associated with adjacent pottery works.
Early C19.
Brick with hipped plain tiled roof. 2-storeyed, 6
bays, loading bays in central section infilled, and windows with
single-ring cambered heads.
“Mr John
Davenport commenced business at Longport in 1794, and added, in
1797, to his other concerns, the chemical preparation of litharge
and white lead, for the use of potters, in their glazes; but this
department is now discontinued. In 1801, the making of flint-glass,
or crystal, was introduced by them, and is still extensively can-led
on; connecting with which is steam-machinery for cutting and
ornamenting it. They produce very brilliant specimens of stained
glass, and have got up some elaborate works of that kind for church
and other windows, particularly one for St Mark’s, Liverpool; and
have furnished splendid assortments for the Dukes of Sutherland and
Devonshire, the Marquis of Anglesea and Westminster, and others of
the nobility.
They have (in addition to
Longport
Pottery, the
Top &
Bottom
Bridge Works) a fourth Earthenware manufactory at Newport,
which, with a good house near it, was built by Mr Walter Daniel, in
or about the year 1795. The aggregate of their business, indeed, is
of very considerable magnitude, and gives employment to upwards of
fifteen hundred hands. Messrs Davenports’ china ware has long
obtained celebrity, not only for the excellence of its material, but
for exquisite design and embellishments. On his Majesty, King
William, coming to the throne, he gave directions for a superb
service of porcelain to be made, for the banquet to be given at the
Coronation. This splendid production was, by his Majesty’s
permission, exhibited publicly at the works, at Longport, previous
to its being forwarded to St James’s; and Messrs Davenport, with
that liberality which has distinguished them on all occasions,
invited the manufacturers generally, and other neighbours, to
inspect it.”
John Ward, History of the Borough of Stoke-upon-Trent
(1843)
photo: Steve Birks
Feb 2008
the works is also a
listed building
the bottle kiln is also a
listed building
take a 'walk'
around Longport
  
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