Listed Buildings
in Stoke-on-Trent and area
Two
Bottle Kilns, Commerce Street, Longton
Area
Longton |
Street
Commerce Street |
Heritage No.
99 A |
Grade
II |
Date Listed
07 march 1989 |
Building:
Two bottle ovens at
the Commerce Pottery Works |
Location:
STOKE ON TRENT SJ94SW COMMERCE
STREET |
Description:
Pair of circular hovels within a workshop range, mid 19th
Century |
Two remaining
bottle kilns at the Commerce Street Works
Pair of circular
hovels within a workshop range
photos: Steve
Birks Jan 2001
Commerce Works (Formerly Listed
as: LONGTON COMMERCE STREET, Longton (West side) 2 Bottle Kilns
at Ashdale Pottery Products)
Pottery works. Late C19.
Brick with plain tiled roofs.
Courtyard plan. Entrance range of 3 storeys and 4 bays, with
doorway and central archway to rear. Wide windows with
flat-arched heads with hood moulds.
Long 3-storeyed range to rear may
be slightly earlier, and houses 2 updraught kilns in circular
hovels, with adjacent square section chimney.
aerial photo:
MS Virtual Earth 2008
on the Commerce
Street Works
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