Disused Workshop Immediately To South Of Kiln House At Jackfield Tile Museum

This is a disused workshop located immediately to the south of the Kiln House at the Jackfield Tile Museum. It was built in the late 19th century and has been altered. The workshop was constructed for the Craven Dunnill Tile Company and features a mottled brick tiled roof. The building is two storeys high and has seven bays on the front and two additional bays.

Bays one and two each have a large original opening beneath a wooden lintel and a relieving arch, although the opening in bay two has been infilled. There are two square-headed openings added on the right side. Bay six retains an original segmentally-arched opening, along with two other segmentally-arched windows. On the first floor, each bay has an original window with a chamfered brick sill and a casement with glazing bars beneath a segmental arch. Bay eight projects out and has a vertically boarded structure on the first floor. Bay nine features an arched window on the first floor and an external wooden staircase on the right return.

Historically, this building housed an early gas-fired tunnel kiln, which was used to draw tile batches on trolleys. The first-floor rooms at the right end were known as the Mosaic Rooms, where women chopped strips of tile into "tesserae" and pasted them onto sheets of paper to create mosaic floor patterns.