Listed Buildings in Stoke-on-Trent. (29b) Former Cliff Vale potteries

Twyfords, Cliffe Vale
pen drawing by Neville Malkin - January 1976

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Listed Buildings in Stoke-on-Trent and area

Former Cliff Vale potteries

Area Cliff Vale	Street Shelton New Road	Heritage No. 29b	Grade II	Date Listed 20 August 1979
Building: Former Cliff Vale Potteries, occupied by Twyfords then Caradon Twyfords Ltd
Location: STOKE ON TRENT SJ84NE
Description: Pottery Works, red brick, stone dressings

Frontage of the Cliff Vale Potteries
Frontage of the Cliff Vale Potteries

Entrance to the Cliff Vale Potteries

Twyfords Cliffe Vale Pottery

photos: Steve Birks - 2000

Pottery works and bottle kilns.

1887 with later modifications. Brick with stone dressings and plain tiled roofs. Frontage range of 3 storeys and 22 bays (2-2-4-1-4-9). Entrance bay has stone pilasters and entrance with cast iron lintel over and 3 stilted arched windows above, and ornamented segmental pediment bearing date.

Flanking this entrance bay are 2 towers with paired windows with stone aprons in the upper floors, and stone quoins.

The outer range to the right has giant arched colonnade with windows with cambered brick heads, and moulded brick eaves cornice. 2 bays to the left in a similar style, then a gabled range with giant brick arches.

Cliffe Vale Pottery
from an 1893 advertising and trade journal

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