Bretby Art Pottery Showroom is a Grade II listed building in the South Derbyshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 October 1981. Showroom. 3 related planning applications.

Bretby Art Pottery Showroom

WRENN ID
secret-threshold-brook
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Derbyshire
Constituency
South Derbyshire MP: Samantha Niblett (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 October 1981
Type
Showroom
Address
Bretby Art Pottery Showroom, Swadlincote Road, DE11 8DB
OS grid reference
SK 311 191
Coordinates
52.76923, -1.53955
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Bretby Art Pottery Showroom is an early 20th-century building designed as a showroom for Bretby Art Pottery. It is a small structure, slightly set back from the street boundary and connected to the pottery works at the rear. The building exhibits Art Nouveau influences and is constructed of glazed red brick with a pyramidal tiled roof featuring a finial, gabled to the left above the showroom window.

The street-facing elevation is a single storey, featuring a window and a door. The gable includes a finial and bargeboards supported by brick corbels, with a tie beam and balusters serving as queen posts. The shop window is set within a brick recess and has a flattened elliptical arch. Above the window, there are glazing bars supporting a tripartite stained glass top light. The panelled door includes a glazed top light displaying the name and trademark of the pottery, alongside a large letter box integrated into the design. A copper strip above the door features Art Nouveau lettering.

Inside, the showroom boasts a good fireplace, panelled doors, and decorative elements such as painted doors, murals, and decorative metalwork.

Local climate

Bretby Art Pottery Showroom 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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