Former Smithfield Pottery and Bottle Oven is a Grade II listed building in the Stoke-on-Trent local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 November 1987. Pottery, bottle oven.

Former Smithfield Pottery and Bottle Oven

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Stoke-on-Trent
Constituency
Stoke-on-Trent Central MP: Gareth Snell (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 November 1987
Type
Pottery, bottle oven
Address
Former Smithfield Pottery and Bottle Oven, Warner Street, City of Stoke-On-Trent
OS grid reference
SJ 881 470
Coordinates
53.02106, -2.17765
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The former Smithfield Pottery and bottle oven, built in 1880, is located on Warner Street in Hanley, Stoke on Trent. This structure features brick construction with a plain tiled roof. It includes a two-storey workshop range to the south, which has fixed light casements with blue brick cambered heads, some of which have been renewed. There is also an upper loading door in the gable. To the north, the kiln is connected and features an elongated short-necked hovel. A further range to the east has since been demolished.

Local climate

Former Smithfield Pottery and Bottle Oven receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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