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Dudson pottery works and bottle kiln, Hanley


Area
Hanley
Street
Hanover Street
Heritage No.
51a
Grade
II
Date Listed
20 August 1979
Building: Pottery works (former occupied Dudson Bros Ltd)
Location: STOKE ON TRENT SJ8847
Description:  Mid 19C potters kiln, circular hovel, larger scale than most.


Part of the yard and out-buildings surrounding the kiln
Part of the yard and out-buildings surrounding the kiln
this factory is now open as a museum,
devoted to 200 years of the Dudson family pottery.

 

The large Dudson bottle kiln
The large Dudson bottle kiln

photos: Steve Birks - Oct 1999

 


Formerly known as: Bottle kiln in yard to rear of premises occupied by Dudson Bros. Ltd. Hanover Street, Hanley.

Pottery works, established on the site in the 1820's, but displaying a complex history of growth, adaptation and modification, with a major expansion in 1872.

Brick with plain tiled roofs. A complex of buildings grouped around a courtyard, with main range to Hanover Street:

2-storeyed entrance block of 3 bays with arched entry to courtyard and doorways inserted in former windows to ground floor, casement windows above. Adjoining this to the left is a further range of 5 bays, with single ring chamber heads to windows, renewed in original openings. 2 further bays beyond, a later addition. These adjoin a small house, with central blocked doorway flanked by windows now boarded, but with flat arched stuccoed heads.

Other sides of courtyard occupied by a series of brick buildings, with one long range to SE, built in 2 phases, of 6 and 7 bays.

The kiln is housed within the courtyard - a wide circular hovel, partly rendered over.

(Audrey m. Dudson: Dudson: A Family of Potters since 1800: Hanley: 1985-: pg 30-36).

 


Dudson Pottery frontage - Hope Street is to the left and York Street to the right.
Dudson Pottery frontage
Hope Street is to the left and York Street to the right.

Photo: Ian Bailey  - 1983
The Dudson factory only had one kiln
The Dudson factory only had one kiln
Section from 1898 OS map.

Note the tramways in Hope Street. St. Johns Church to the right still stands.
The 'Slack Field' recreational ground was home to Port Vale (one of the local football teams) - now based in Burslem.

photo: Chris Oldham - 2007

 


next: All Saints Church, Joiner Square, Hanley
previous: Bottle Kilns at former Johnson Bros Works, Hanley
 

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