Stoke-on-Trent is a city in Staffordshire, England. Known as The Potteries and is the home of the pottery industry in the United Kingdom. Formed in 1910 from six towns, the city has almost 200 listed buildings within the city. Many of these are connected with the pottery industry and the people involved with it.
The term "listed building", in the United Kingdom, refers to a building or structure designated as being of special architectural, historical, or cultural significance under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990. They are categorised in three grades: Grade I consists of buildings of outstanding architectural or historical interest, Grade II* includes significant buildings of more than local interest and Grade II consists of buildings of special architectural or historical interest. Buildings in England are listed by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport on recommendations provided by English Heritage, which also determines the grading.[1]
Located in the churchyard of St. Peter ad Vincula, Stoke a pair of Chest tombs from late 18th and mid 19th centuries commemorates members of the Whalley and Broade families.[6]
Located in the churchyard of St. Peter ad Vincula, Stoke, a fragment of an early 10th century Anglo-Saxon cross that was re-erected in the mid 19th century on a tooled base surrounded by railings by local architect and amateur archaeologist Charles Lynam.[7]
13th century arch from a previous church building on the site of St. Peter ad Vincula, Stoke. The stones were reassembled by local architect and amateur archaeologist Charles Lynam in the 1880s.[8]
Pottery works comprising a number of buildings surrounding a central courtyard and kiln. Originally built in the 1820s substantial modifications were made in 1872.[11]
Designed by local architects Wood & Hutchings and built of brick picked out with terracotta, the three-storey building was constructed on land donated by the 4th Duke of Sutherland and named in his honour. A decorative Bass-reliefFrieze in terracotta depicting the pottery, mining and metal working industries was added in 1908.[18]
Mid 19th century art school designed by Edward Pugin and his partner James Murray. Built of brick interspersed with stone bands and dressings and with a slate roof. Now used as offices.[19]
A pair of timber-framed cottages with brick infill in a herringbone pattern. Built on the plinth of an earlier 18th century structure and incorporating some brickwork from the earlier period in a bay on the left hand side.[21]
The second Town Hall built in Burslem, this two storeyed ashlar building was designed in the Baroque Revival style by G. T. Robinson. Since it ceased to be the Town Hall, it has been used variously as a library, recreation centre, a pottery museum (Ceramica) and most recently a sixth form college.[24]
Middleport Pottery situated on the Trent and Mersey Canal in Stoke-on-Trent, was built by Burgess and Leigh in the late nineteenth century. The main building is a long two-storey, 34-bay brick and terracotta structure.[25]
19th century pottery works, including 2 bottle ovens. Main building is 2 storeyed with 13 bays of brick with Staffordshire blue brick dressings. The ovens are circular and are contained with the rear ranges of the works.[28]
A U-shaped set of farm buildings built at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries of sandstone and brick with ashlar dressings and a tiled roof. Used by Hugh Bourne as premised to print early books connected with Primitive Methodism[34]
Of brick with some stonework reputedly stone from Hulton Abbey, most of the farmhouse dates from the early 19th century but there is evidence of earlier buildings on the site.[35]
Incorporating early 16th century remains, most of St Bartholomew's dates from 1626. Built of sandstone there are later additions of a chancel in 1750, a bellcote designed by George Gilbert Scott in 1846 and a north aisle by Charles Lynham in 1867.[40]
Brick and dressed stone parish church built in 1738 by Richard Trubshaw. Chancel remodelled and North and South chapels added by John Herbert Beckett between 1914 and 1916.[47]
Art Deco style building built by W E Trent as a cinema for Provincial Cinematograph Theatres Limited. Steel framed with brick and glazed terracotta (faience) cladding. Renamed the Gaumont in 1950 and the Odeon in 1976, the cinema closed in 1989 but was refitted and reopened as a theatre in 1999.[49]
Two storeyed, redbrick with terracotta panelling and friezes. Used as a library and art school, now empty. Named by The Victorian Society as one of the 2010 top ten most at-risk Victorian buildings in England and Wales.[52][53]
Two cottages, formerly part of the estate of the Dukes of Sutherland. The timber-framed buildings have brick infill and tile roofs. One cottage has a number of outbuildings including a bakehouse still with its chimney stack.[58]
The northern range of buildings belonging to Aynsley China the building encompasses a wide range of architectural styles in a long frontage. One gatehouse is dated 1879 but the entire range was built over a longer period in the second half of the 19th century[59]
Built as the Victoria Institute, the public library and adjoining public baths were built of red brick with terracotta dressings. The library is of 3 storeys and the baths 2 storeys joined by a common courtyard[60]
The Villas is an estate of 24 houses designed by Charles Lynam. Numbers 3 & 4 are a pair of semi-detached houses of brick overlaid with stucco and are designed in the Italianate style with concrete tiled roofs[61]
The Villas is an estate of 24 houses designed by Charles Lynam. Number 15 is a detached house of brick overlaid with stucco and are designed in the Italianate style with a slate tiled roof. One of the former occupiers was Arnold Machin, the artist and designer.[62]
A former butcher market now a shopping centre. A single storey rectangular building in ashlar with 5 bayed façade. Built in Greek revival style, it was remodelled in the 1990s after the market closed.[64]
A yellow terracotta tower built to commemorate Vice-Admiral Smith Child. Square in section, one side contains the door to the clock room and the other three carry panels showing the names of those who donated to the building of the memorial.[65]
The offices and exchange of the National Telephone Company, a three-storey building in red brick and terracotta. Above the main door is the name "Telephone Buildings" in terracotta.[66]
Now a museum, the former Gladstone pottery works date mostly from 1860 but there are elements that date back to the start of the 19th century and earlier. The main building range is a long 3 storey building and behind it are a number of kilns and other building ranges arranged around a central courtyard.[67]
Burslem's third Town Hall designed by the firm of Russell & Cooper is built in ashlar. The front has a full height portico with Corinthian columns. Very soon after completion it became an entertainment venue, Queen's Hall, and in 1966 it became known as the Queen's Theatre.[69]
Early 19th century pottery works comprising two ranges at right angles to each other with angled corner that formed the original entrance. Ornate pediment and Palladian windows to entrance building.[70]
Early 20th century extension to 1858 works. Comprises two brick built ranges (one single storeyed, one three storeyed) incorporating two kilns in the single storey range. The three storeyed building has a stone plaque of a falcon set in the gable.[74]
Now disused church, originally built late 18th century with 19th century additions. Of brick construction with stones dressings and a slate roof. Includes cast iron components in its construction including the window frames, caastellations and gallery columns. This use of cast iron is the second earliest known in the country (the only known earlier examples are in the Church of St James, Liverpool).[77]
Normacot parish church. Built to the order of the 2nd Duke of Sutherland by George Gilbert Scott and later extended with the addition of a north aisle by John Lewis in the 1890s. Construction is of stone with a tiled roof.[80]
The two storey range at the northwest end of the St Mary's pottery was built in 1862 of brick and terracotta. Originally the works of Samuel Moore, they later became the works of Thomas C Wild & Co and later Royal Doulton. Formed of 13 bays a further range of 8 bays was added in 1888.[82]
Library and Shakespeare Institute, built in 1878, designed by Charles Lynam. Brick with stone dressing; there are tiled panels, and a mosaic depicting Shakespeare in a central panel.[85]
Frontage of former pottery factory, built by Enoch Wood in 1789. The former entrance is in a pedimented bay across the angle between flanking ranges.[90]
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