Commerce Works is a Grade II listed building in the Stoke-on-Trent local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 March 1989. Pottery works.

Commerce Works

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Stoke-on-Trent
Constituency
Stoke-on-Trent South MP: Dr Allison Gardner (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 March 1989
Type
Pottery works
Address
Commerce Works, Commerce Street, City of Stoke-On-Trent
OS grid reference
SJ 910 432
Coordinates
52.98667, -2.1345
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Commerce Works is a former pottery works built in the late 19th century. The building is constructed of brick and features plain tiled roofs, arranged around a courtyard. The entrance range is three storeys high and consists of four bays, with a doorway and a central archway at the rear. It has wide windows that have flat-arched heads and hood moulds. At the back, there is a long three-storeyed range that may be slightly older and contains two updraught kilns housed in circular hovels, alongside an adjacent square section chimney.

Local climate

Commerce Works receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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