Kiln and Buildings at Former Escolme Pottery is a Grade II listed building in the South Derbyshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 February 2005. Kiln, workshop. 3 related planning applications.
Kiln and Buildings at Former Escolme Pottery
- WRENN ID
- lesser-rampart-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Derbyshire
- Constituency
- South Derbyshire MP: Samantha Niblett (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 February 2005
- Type
- Kiln, workshop
- Address
- Kiln and Buildings at Former Escolme Pottery, 114-118, High Street, Woodville, DE11 7DU
- OS grid reference
- SK 318 188
- Coordinates
- 52.76606, -1.53007
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a pottery kiln and associated workshops, dating from 1833. The kiln was built for T Hall and William Davenport and later operated as the Escolme pottery.
The circular bottle kiln is constructed of red brick, incorporating blue headers within the English garden wall bond. It measures approximately 8.5 metres in diameter at its base. The upper section of the kiln has been removed, and there is a square opening beneath a steel joist on the east side.
Attached to the southwest side of the kiln is a two-story range of former workshops, now used as agricultural buildings. This range is four bays wide, featuring two-light windows with segmental heads formed of blue headers at the first floor. The ground floor has square-headed openings, including two wider cart openings. An external timber staircase is positioned on the right side, and a pitching door is located in the lower wing on the left.
The buildings along the High Street and the former workshop range behind the High Street frontage of numbers 114-118 are not considered to have group value.
The site represents a rare and early example of the once widespread pottery industry in south Derbyshire.
Local climate
Kiln and Buildings at Former Escolme Pottery receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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