Ceramic House is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1983. Lodge.
Ceramic House
- WRENN ID
- rusted-truss-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bradford
- Constituency
- Bradford West MP: Naz Shah (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 1983
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- Ceramic House, Brow Lane, Clayton
- OS grid reference
- SE 108 311
- Coordinates
- 53.7768, -1.83706
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ceramic House is a lodge built around 1880-1890 for the Towers and part of the Whitehead family's Clayton Fireclay Works estate. Like the Tower itself, the lodge serves as a showcase for the firm's products. It is situated on a raised terrace with a cast iron balustrade featuring a French-inspired design. The two-storey elevations are constructed from salt glazed fireclay bricks that are a bull's blood red color, adorned with white and blue enamelled birds arranged in diamond patterns. There are leaf patterned fireclay plat bands and eaves bands. The roof has a low pitch and is tiled at the gable end. The front has four windows divided into two sections, with the left side recessed. The ground floor features coupled sash windows. The lintels are embellished with fireclay plaques depicting amorini, and there are similarly decorated circular plaques at the corners of the window heads.
Local climate
Ceramic House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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