Listed Buildings in Stoke-on-Trent, Fountain Place works of Enoch Wood, Burslem

Listed Buildings in Stoke-on-Trent and area

Enoch Wood's Fountain Place Works

Area Burslem	Street 3-9 Westport Road	Heritage No. 7a	Grade II	Date Listed 2 Oct 1951
Building: Former warehouse offices and showroom - now flats 1-22 Fountain Court
Location: STOKE ON TRENT SJ8649NE FOUNTAIN PLACE, Burslem
Description: 1789, Former Fountain Place works of Enoch Wood, partially rebuilt

Restored frontage of Wood's Fountain Place factory

photo: Steve Birks Feb 2008

Frontage range pot bank. 1789, for the potter Enoch Wood.

Brick with tiled roofs. 3-storeyed, former entrance in pedimented bay across angle, with flanking ranges to the west and north.

Inserted shop front to ground floor of corner section, and large display window over in moulded architrave, [note: now removed and entrance restored] then tripartite window above, with Doric pilasters. Dentilled pediment with roundel perhaps once showing date.

Late 19th Century shop front [now removed] in 7-bay western range, and sash-type windows with stone sills and flat arched heads with incised voussoirs.

Inserted windows to ground floor in northern range of 9 bays. Formerly the works of Enoch Wood, and built by him in 1789.

(The Victorian History of the Counties of England: RB. Pugh: Staffordshire: Oxford: 1963-).

Wood's Fountain Place factory, Burslem in 1840

the works before restoration

- with the shop frontage in place of the entrance -

Photo: Ian Bailey

Following restoration and conversion into flats during 2000

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