Pevsner and the Buildings of Stoke-on-Trent
 

Inner Burslem

Private Buildings

"of private buildings in this centre less than half a dozen require comment...."


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Next to the Sunday School is the Wade Heath pottery, one of the best of the pottery offices and  warehouses. It is dated 1814.
Canted corner with archway. Venetian window and pediment with a plaque.


Wade Heath Pottery Works, Burslem
Westport Road, built originally 1814
photo - Ian Bailey

At the corner of Fountain Place there is another such arrangement on the diagonal, less well preserved [than Wade Heath]


Wood frontage - before restoration
photo - Ian Bailey

 


The old Wood Fountain Place pottery works on Westport Road, Burslem
Following restoration and conversion into flats during 2000

Photo: Jan 2001

on Enoch Wood's Fountain Place Works

In the centre of the centre the Leopard Inn, s of the Old Town Hall, with two three-storeyed bows, the three parts of each bow separated by columns.


Photo: March 2001


on the Leopard Inn

At the corner of Wedgwood Street and Chapel Bank the Midland Bank, a former private house, and the best in Burslem. It has a date 1751 and the initials of Thomas and John Wedgwood. Five bays, two and a half storeys with a one-bay pediment and a porch of Tuscan columns carrying a triglyph frieze and a pediment.

 


The Big House of John & Thomas Wedgwood built c. 1750.

on The Big House




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