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Listed Buildings
in Stoke-on-Trent and area
Former Calcining
Works, Middleport, Burslem
Area
Middleport |
Street
Newport Lane |
Heritage No.
103 A |
Grade
II |
Date Listed
20 August 1979 |
Building:
Former Calcining Works |
Location:
STOKE ON TRENT SJ84NE NEWPORT
LANE, Middleport |
Description:
Former calcining works. Late 19th Century.
Brick with plain tiled roofs. |
![Calcining works on the Trent & Mersey canal](../streets/burslem/newport_lane/calcining.jpg)
Calcining
works on the Trent & Mersey canal
Former calcining works. Late 19th Century. Brick
with plain tiled roofs.
L-plan. Works comprise a 2-storeyed workshop
range parallel with the canal, with 5 blocked windows and upper
loading doors. At right angles to this, a single-storeyed range,
once open on a series of arcaded arches now filled in.
At the east of the site, a pair of calcining
kilns adjoin the workshop range: one a narrow cylindrical form,
the other square in section with heavily moulded cap, and
chimney to rear.
2 Calcining kilns, prominent
canal side position on the Trent and Mersey canal, near the
junction with the Burslem canal extension.
![The square and round hovels, alongside Newport Lane](../streets/burslem/newport_lane/calcining1.jpg)
The square and
round hovels, alongside Newport Lane
![Detail on the round hovel](../streets/burslem/newport_lane/calcining2.jpg)
Detail on the
round hovel
photos: Steve
Birks
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