Camoys Terrace, Burslem

Numbers 184-186 Waterloo Road
Camoys Terrace

photo: Steve Birks - 2001

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Pair of houses. Circa 1850.

Brick with scallop-tiled roof. 2 storeys, 6 window range forming a symmetrical pair. Outer gables advanced, with 3-light casement windows on ground floor, 2-light window above, both with drop-ended hood moulds.

Porches in each angle  with main range, stuccoed with pierced balustrading, and 2-centred arched part-glazed doors. Small window with hood mould over door. 2-light casement window on each floor in central section, with drop-ended hood moulds, and expressed gables over. small panes in right hand windows, early 20th Century stained glass emblems in left hand house.

Fretted barge-boards survive in part on left hand house. Projecting gable end and axial stacks with octagonal flues over square base.

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The first phase of development of the Grange Estate included the construction of “Camoys Terrace” (No 184 & 186 Waterloo Road), a pair of large semi-detached houses in the Gothic style. No 184 contained 8 rooms and No 186 7 rooms, each with a front garden and a large rear garden plus a coach house and driveway to Waterloo Road. 

In 1851 one of the houses was occupied by William Kennedy, a pottery manufacturer at the Washington works. 

By 1842 the 220 acre Rushton Grange estate had passed to Lord Camoys. Shortly afterwards he began to redevelop the land on the east side of the estate next to Waterloo Road.

photos: Steve Birks - 2001

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