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]
| Grade | Criteria | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| I | Buildings of exceptional interest, sometimes considered to be internationally important | ||
| II* | Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. | ||
| II | Buildings of national importance and special interest. |
| Name | Name and location | Photograph | Grade | Date | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mausoleum for the Marquis of Stafford 52.9667°N -2.1981°W | The mausoleum for the Marquis of Stafford was designed by Charles Heathcote Tatham. Built of ashlar in a neo-Egyptian style it is the only Grade I listed building in the city. | |||||
| Farmhouse, Garden Street, Penkhull 53.0003°N -2.1978°W | Late 18th century T-plan farmhouse with 19th century additions and modifications. Probably built around 1780 when Josiah Spode II leased the farm. | |||||
| The Vine Public House, Naylor Street, Pitshill 53.0675°N -2.1992°W | Rare surviving example of 19th century back street public house that retains original layout and fittings. | |||||
| Hanley St Lukes Church of England Primary School 53.025°N -2.1681°W | Late Victorian school building in Vernacular Revival style. Incorporates a large number of contemporary tiles from the nearby Mintons pottery. | |||||
| Chest tombs of Whalley and Broade family, Stoke Minster 53.0039°N -2.1817°W | 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. | |||||
| Fragment of Anglo-Saxon Cross, Stoke Minster 53.0036°N -2.1819°W | 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. | |||||
| Remains of earlier church in St Peter's churchyard 53.0033°N -2.1814°W | 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. | |||||
| North Staffordshire School for the Deaf, Hartshill 53.0044°N -2.1969°W | Early 19th century ashlar and brick house built for the potter Josiah Spode. Now the North Staffordshire School for the Deaf. | |||||
| Elm House, Handley Street, Tunstall 53.0872°N -2.1989°W | Late 17th Century farmhouse, now a house. Extended in mid 18th century | |||||
| Pottery works formerly occupied by Dudson's Ltd, Hannover Street, Hanley 53.0292°N -2.1797°W | Pottery works comprising a number of buildings surrounding a central courtyard and kiln. Originally built in the 1820s substantial modifications were made in 1872. | |||||
| 283 Hartshill Road, Hartshill 53.0292°N -2.1797°W | Early 19th century one and a half storied cottage in the Gothic Revival style. | |||||
| Holy Trinity Church, Hartshill 53.0097°N -2.2019°W | Designed by George Gilbert Scott and William Bonython Moffatt, Holy Trinity is the parish church and was constructed in 1842 in the Gothic Revival style. The church was endowed by Herbert Minton, son of the founder of Thomas Minton & Sons. | |||||
| Ford Hayes farmhouse 53.0128°N -2.1136°W | A farmhouse dating from the late 18th century. It was the birthplace and childhood home of Hugh Bourne, the founder of Primitive Methodism. | |||||
| Christ Church, Tunstall 53.0625°N -2.2111°W | A Commissioners' church built in the early 1830s. It was designed by Francis Bedford and is of stone construction with a slate roof. | |||||
| Boundary Works, King Street, Longton 52.9911°N -2.1386°W | Early 19th century pottery works formerly occupied by Leo Samuels Ltd. Of brick construction with a tiled roof | |||||
| Bottle ovens and chimney at Albion Works, King Street, Longton 52.9906°N -2.1383°W | Two brick built Bottle ovens with attendant chimney stack | |||||
| Sutherland Institute & Library, Lightwood Road, Longton 52.9836°N -2.1328°W | 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-relief Frieze in terracotta depicting the pottery, mining and metal working industries was added in 1908. | |||||
| Former School of Art, London Road, Stoke 53.0022°N -2.1869°W | 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. | |||||
| 45, 47 & 49 Longton Road, Trentham 52.9653°N -2.1922°W | Terrace of 3 cottages in the Arts and Crafts style built for the Sutherland estate. Brick with timber framing and plain tiled roof. | |||||
| 51 & 53 Longton Road, Trentham 52.9656°N -2.1925°W | 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. | |||||
| Church of St Thomas the Apostle, Penkhull 53.0003°N -2.1964°W | Designed by George Gilbert Scott, the parish church of Penkhull is a spired building of squared sandstone. In the late 19th century aisles were added. | |||||
| 36 Market Place, Burslem 53.0456°N -2.1989°W | Late 18th century 3 storeyed shop of Stuccoed brick. | |||||
| Old Town Hall, Burslem 53.0458°N -2.1978°W | 100px | 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. | ||||
| Middleport Pottery 53.0411°N -2.2094°W | 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. | |||||
| Former school house at Stoke Union Workhouse, Newcastle Road, Hartshill 53.0044°N -2.2153°W | Now situated within the grounds of the City General Hospital, the 2 storeyed, 15 bay workhouse schoolhouse is of Flemish Bond brickwork picked out with Staffordshire blue brick headers. | |||||
| Warehouse in Price and Kensington Works, Newcastle Street, Longport 53.0442°N -2.2139°W | Early 19th century warehouse inside the pottery works of Price and Kensington. Of brick construction with hipped tile roof. | |||||
| Sutherland Works, Normacot Road, Longton 52.9847°N -2.1303°W | 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. | |||||
| Etruria Hall, Etruria 53.0261°N -2.1953°W | Designed for Josiah Wedgwood by Joseph Pickford, Etruria Hall is a 3 storeyed, 5 bayed hall brick structure with a 2 storeyed wing on each side. Extensively rebuilt in the 19th century the hall later became offices for Shelton Iron & Steel Company and now forms part of a hotel on the site of the 1986 National garden Festival. | |||||
| Etruscan Bone Mill, Etruria 53.0186°N -2.1919°W | Mid 19th century bone mill built of brick with a slate roof. Now forms part of the Etruria Industrial Museum. | |||||
| War Memorial, Albert Square, Fenton 52.9981°N -2.1642°W | Ashlar cenotaph erected to commemorate the fallen of the First World War. On one side of the monument is a bas-relief figure of a soldier with reversed arms. | |||||
| War Memorial, Albion Square, Hanley 53.0239°N -2.1756°W | Ashlar pedestal surmounted by larger than life sized bronze statue of Victory. | |||||
| Bethesda Methodist Chapel, Hanley 53.0233°N -2.1769°W | Two storeyed chapel of brick with stuccoed façade and slate roof. Built in 1819 with substantial additions in 1859 and 1887 | |||||
| Barn and stables at Bemersley Farm 53.0881°N -2.1739°W | 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 | |||||
| Abbey Farmhouse, Birches Head Road 53.0403°N -2.1469°W | 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. | |||||
| 1 Brook Street, Stoke 53.0047°N -2.1811°W | Originally a house but now offices, 1 Brook Street was built of brick and stone in Tudor Gothic style in the mid to late 19th century. | |||||
| Tunstall Market, Butterfield Place, Tunstall 53.0583°N -2.2094°W | Built in 1856 to the design of G. T. Robinson, the market is in the Neoclassical style of brick interspersed with Staffordshire blue brick bands and stone dressing. The entrance is of ashlar. | |||||
| The Red House, Chadwick Street, Longton 52.9869°N -2.1319°W | A brick structure, built as a house then subsequently used as a store for items from the decorating kiln at Gladstone pottery works. | |||||
| Enson Pottery Works, Chelson Street, Longton 52.9847°N -2.1286°W | Late 19th century pottery works with 4 bottle kilns inside the range of buildings. | |||||
| St Bartholomew's Church, Blurton 52.9742°N -2.1519°W | 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. | |||||
| Black Boy Inn, Cobridge 53.0333°N -2.1867°W | A former inn, now a house dating from the mid 18th century. Of brick with lined stucco overlay | |||||
| 266 & 270 Endon Road, Norton 53.0683°N -2.1467°W | The former parish workhouse was converted into two cottages in 1839. A two-storey building of coursed rubble. | |||||
| St Saviour's Church, Smallthorne 53.0508°N -2.1747°W | A mid 19th century parish church built of random rubble with ashlar facings | |||||
| Three bottle ovens in premises occupied by Bayer United Kingdom Ltd 53°N -2.1625°W | Three calcining ovens; two square based and one conical in shape. All built of brick with iron banding | |||||
| Elm Tree Cottage 53.0008°N -2.1983°W | Two storey, two bayed cottage dating from 1694 in red and blue brick and extensively modified in the 18th and 19th centuries | |||||
| Chest tomb to John Fenton in St Peter's churchyard 53.0033°N -2.1811°W | Tomb of John Fenton, stone chest restored in 1888 | |||||
| Church of St Bartholomew, Norton in the Moors 53.0606°N -2.1594°W | 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. | |||||
| The Views 53.0147°N -2.195°W | The birthplace of Oliver Lodge, The Views are a pair of two storeyed painted brick houses | |||||
| Regent Theatre 53.0244°N -2.1767°W | 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. | |||||
| 225, Prince's Road, Hartshill 53.0061°N -2.1964°W | Yellow brick lodge with Doric columned portico | |||||
| 36, 38 & 40 Queen Street, Burslem 53.0447°N -2.1986°W | Row of three shops, of brick and stone construction with slate roof | |||||
| Wedgwood Institute 53.0447°N -2.1972°W | 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.[2] | |||||
| Hartshill cemetery chapels 53.0056°N -2.2036°W | Brick Neo-Romanesque style chapels in the Hartshill cemetery. Designed by Charles Lynam in the mid nineteenth century | |||||
| Cliff Vale Pottery and kilns 53.015°N -2.1917°W | Pottery works of brick with stone dressing. The two surviving kilns have joined bases but separate chimneys | |||||
| Duke of Bridgewater Inn 53.0436°N -2.2139°W | A three storeyed brick inn, originally used as a dwelling house by the master potter of Bottom Bridge pottery but has been in continuous use as a public house since the 1850s. The inn is named after Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater, one of the originators of the nearby Trent & Mersey canal. | |||||
| Cemetery Lodge, Shelton 53.0142°N -2.1842°W | Yellow brick lodge at the entrance to Shelton cemetery | |||||
| Sunnyside Cottage 52.9642°N -2.1947°W | 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. | |||||
| Aynsley China Works, Longton 52.9878°N -2.1225°W | 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 | |||||
| Tunstall library 53.0589°N -2.2089°W | 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 | |||||
| 3 & 4, The Villas 52.9969°N -2.1917°W | 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 | |||||
| 15, The Villas 52.9978°N -2.1931°W | 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. | |||||
| 18, The Villas 52.9978°N -2.1922°W | The Villas is an estate of 24 houses designed by Charles Lynam. Number 18 is a detached house of brick overlaid with stucco and are designed in the Italianate style with a slate tiled roof. | |||||
| Tontine shops 53.0253°N -2.1744°W | 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. | |||||
| Tunstall clock tower 53.0583°N -2.2114°W | 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. | |||||
| Hanley Telephone Exchange 53.0253°N -2.1792°W | 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. | |||||
| Gladstone Pottery Museum 52.9867°N -2.1311°W | 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. | |||||
| 184 & 186 Waterloo Road 53.04°N -2.1917°W | A pair of brick houses with scallop tiled roofs and stuccoed porches. | |||||
| Queen's Theatre 53.0467°N -2.1967°W | 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. | |||||
| Wade Heath Pottery Works 53.0464°N -2.2011°W | 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. | |||||
| Statue of Josiah Wedgwood, Winton Square 53.0083°N -2.1806°W | Bronze statue by Edward Davies of Josiah Wedgwood holding a copy of the Portland Vase. | |||||
| Longton Cemetery chapels 52.9828°N -2.1381°W | Two timber framed, slate roofed chapels. Each of three bays with tower above | |||||
| Former Registrar's office, Longton Cemetery 52.9833°N -2.1381°W | Two storey office building of wood framing with brick infill and tiled roof. Coat of arms of Longton carried above the porch | |||||
| Falcon Works 53.0017°N -2.1894°W | 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. | |||||
| 1 & 2, The Villas 52.9967°N -2.1964°W | A pair of stucco over brick houses. Concrete tiled roofs, designed by Charles Lynam as part of The Villas Stokeville | |||||
| 17 & 17A, The Villas 52.9978°N -2.1925°W | A pair of stucco over brick houses. Concrete tiled roofs, designed by Charles Lynam as part of The Villas Stokeville | |||||
| Church of St John the Evangelist, Hanley 53.0281°N -2.175°W | 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). | |||||
| Harecastle Tunnels, northern portals 53.0631°N -2.2267°W | The northern portals of Harecastle Tunnels on the Trent and Mersey Canal were built 60 years apart by James Brindley (1766–1777) and Thomas Telford (1824–1827). Brindley's tunnel mouth is of brick and Telford's is of stone, both set in a brick retaining wall | |||||
| Trent and Mersey Canal lodge, Harecastle 53.0631°N -2.2269°W | The canal lodge at the northern end of Harecastle tunnel. A whitewashed brick building of two storeys and a slate roof | |||||
| Church of the Holy Evangelists, Normacot 52.9789°N -2.1206°W | 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. | |||||
| Church of St James, Longton 52.9853°N -2.1289°W | A Commissioners' church designed by James Trubshaw. Built of ashlar sandstone, later interior modifications added new windows and an organ chamber. | |||||
| Royal Doulton, St Mary's Pottery 52.9839°N -2.1244°W | 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. | |||||
| Our Lady of the Angels and St Peter in Chains Church, Stoke 53.0081°N -2.1895°W | Gothic Revival Roman Catholic church designed by Charles Hansom and built in 1857.[3] | |||||
| St John's Church, Goldenhill 53.075°N -2.2189°W | Parish church built 1840–41. Designed by Stanley of Shelton. A brick building, in Romanesque style. | |||||
| Library building, London Road, Stoke 53.0022°N -2.1869°W | 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. | |||||
| Burslem War Memorial 53.0455°N -2.1962°W | Made of sandstone ashlar. A niche on the front contains a figure of a soldier with bowed head, rifle and helmet. | |||||
| St John's Church, Burslem 53.0425°N -2.1964°W | The tower is 16th-century. The rest of the church was rebuilt in 1717; the chancel, with apsidal east end and Palladian window, was added in 1788. | |||||
| Christ Church, Cobridge 53.0356°N -2.1869°W | Parish church built 1839–40, enlarged 1845. Designed by Francis Bedford. | |||||
| Christ Church, Fenton 52.9978°N -2.1639°W | The parish church, designed by Charles Lynam; built 1890–91, the tower in 1899. | |||||
| Former Fountain Place Works, Burslem 53.0453°N -2.1997°W | 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. | |||||
| Hill Top Methodist Sunday School, Burslem 53.0458°N -2.2008°W | The portico, with eight Doric columns, is all that survives of the original building. | |||||
| The Duke William 53.0448°N -2.1994°W | 19th Century public house rebuilt in 1929 in the Brewers' Neo-Tudor style. | |||||
| Longton Methodist Central Hall 52.9886°N -2.1372°W | Built in 1842, with modifications in 1877 and 1933. | |||||
| Burslem Market Hall 53.0449°N -2.1983°W | Former market hall, built in 1879 and closed in 2003. It includes a frontage on Queen Street. |