Normacot Road, Longton
Frontage of the
works on Chelson Street & Normacot Road
Pottery works, 2-storeyed, with arched
entrance.
Enson Pottery
Works - a group of listed buildings
Enson pottery,
later occupied by Ashdale
Pottery and then by the North Staffordshire Electric Co.
Pottery works. Late C19 with later
rebuildings. Brick with tiled roofs. Courtyard plan. 2-storeyed,
with arched entrance. 2-storeyed rear wing built in 2 phases
with integral bottle oven. 3 further kilns in complex behind,
all incorporated in buildings, one built or rebuilt in 1937.
this kiln at the
Enson Works is in the range (inside the works) with only the top of
the bottle
protruding through the roof
The 'bonts' are clearly visible running round the oven
around the base are the firemouths
The inner part is the kin proper.
It is a round structure with a domed roof, the CROWN, and its wall
are approximately one foot thick.
Iron bands known as BONTS, set
about twelve inches apart, run right round the circular oven to
strengthen it as it expands and contracts during the firing.
The cottages looking back up Short
Street
These cottages were used in the BBC television adaptation of
Arnold Bennett's book 'Clayhanger'.
Numbers 23, 25, and 27 Short Street, Longton.
Former pottery works and cottages. Brick. A range
of 3 workers’ cottages, each of a single unit plan, fronting
onto Short Street.
Short Street, off
Normacot Road, 2008 - the Enson Works in the background
Looking across Normacot Road up Short Street, 23 October
1960
  
next: Demolition
activity
previous: Sutherland Works
|
