Normacot Road, Longton
The Sutherland Pottery works built
around 1850.
Main range fronting street red
brick with blue brick dressings, 2-storeyed, and built in 2
phases with left-hand range of 7 bays then the lower entrance
block with 6 bays each side of projecting central bay with
arched entrance giving access to rear yard, and Palladian-type
triple window over.
Within the courtyard, 3 bottle
ovens are contained within rear ranges: all circular hovels with
updraught ovens.
Sutherland Works
range - occupied by Hudson & Middleton
- a listed building -
the works are directly opposite St. James Church
Hudson & Middleton frontage
(Normacot Road) with horse and cart
The last ever firing of a
coal fired bottle kiln
this took
place at Hudson & Middleton where some ware made at the nearby Gladstone
Pottery Museum was fired.
Sutherland Works (Hudson & Middleton)
the frontage of the works is on
Normacot Road, the three bottle kilns are to the rear.
aerial photos:
MS Virtual Earth 2008
At the end of the
Sutherland Pottery works is "Court No. 2" - a small row of terraced
houses
  
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