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The Gladstone Pottery Museum, Longton
The Gladstone Pottery Museum, Longton
pen drawing by Neville Malkin - August 1975

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Listed Buildings in Stoke-on-Trent and area

Gladstone museum, Longton


Area
Longton
Street
Uttoxeter Road
Heritage No.
97 A B C
Grade
II*
Date Listed
19 April 1972
Building: Former Gladstone works and Park Place (Roslyn) Works
Location: STOKE ON TRENT SJ94SW UTTOXETER ROAD
Description:  Mid 19thC pottery factories, retaining 7 bottle ovens, now a museum

White & Red house at the Gladstone Pottery Museum
White & Red house at the Gladstone Pottery Museum
Corner of Uttoxeter Road and Chadwick Street.
Gladstone was not a famous pottery, however it was typical of hundreds of similar factories in the area making everyday ceramic items for the mass market and is now preserved as a complete Victorian pottery factory.

photo: Eileen Hallam  2004
 

on Gladstone Works


Former pottery works, now a working museum complex comprising of two former pot banks.

Main complex is former Gladstone works, the present buildings largely circa 1860 and later, but incorporating elements of earlier structures and a tradition of use of the site going back to the late 18th Century.

Main entrance block fronts Uttoxeter Road, and was built circa 1860. Three storeyed, 10 bays with wide carriage entry to the left with stuccoed quoins, with two round arched windows and a doorway with fanlight and stuccoed quoins along side. Other ground floor windows inserted, but upper storeys have sash windows with margin lights, with a continuous sill band and hood moulds with shield stops. Fixed light windows with stone and concrete lintels in the rear elevation, and inserted doorway giving present entrance to the museum. Long three storey rear wing. This range housed warehouses, offices and administration.

Roslyn Works, Uttoxeter Road, Looking towards Longton
Roslyn Works, Uttoxeter Road, Looking towards Longton
Part of the Gladstone Museum comples - The Park Place Works (now the Roslyn Works) lies adjacent to Gladstone.

photo: Eileen Hallam  2004


Roslyn Works frontage

photo: Steve Birks  October 1999



on the Roslyn Works

Adjoining it to the south east is the main range of the Roslyn Works, separated from the Gladstone works and built in the later 19th Century. Three storeyed, 12 bays with carriage door giving access to rear courtyard and weighbridge, with tripartite windows over, and fixed light windows with stuccoed lintels and sills, moulded to ground floor. To the rear left, a range running at right angles contains two biscuit kilns of circa 1940, incorporated in the building, with hovels only at upper level.

 

Small courtyard with three storeyed workshop ranges. The workshop ranges of the Gladstone works are arranged in the rear courtyard: the earliest range is circa 1840, and forms the western boundary of the site. Altered ground floor, with 7 large workshop windows over, and upper doorways. Further workshop ranges added to north and south later in the 19th Century.

East of this building, a biscuit kiln, with bulbous narrow necked hovel, first recorded on this site in 1856.

decorating (muffle) kiln with tall stepped flue
decorating (muffle) kiln with tall stepped flue
photo: Steve Birks  October 1999
 

To the rear of the Red House, a decorating (muffle) kiln with tall stepped flue.

To the south of the site, the engine house and adjoining workshop range were built circa 1878. The engine house is now missing its upper storey, and the workshop range behind it has been extensively rebuilt.

To the east of the site, two kilns in wide circular hovels, probably late 19th Century, but representing the rebuilding of earlier structures, first recorded on the site in 1815. They are linked by a further two storeyed workshop range (recently extensively rebuilt), and a further workshop block running south links with another bottle oven, also probably a late 19th Century rebuilding of an earlier structure.      

Six kilns at Gladstone Pottery, Longton
Six kilns at Gladstone Pottery, Longton

photo: Chris Oldfield - 2007

Saggars at Gladstone Works, Longton
Saggars at Gladstone Works, Longton

Gladstone courtyard
Gladstone courtyard
Small courtyard with three storeyed workshop ranges.
The workshop ranges of the Gladstone works are arranged in the rear courtyard

photos: Steve Birks Feb 2007




aerial photos: MS Virtual Earth 2008


the white house is a listed building

the red house is a listed building

 


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