Sutherland Works Including Two Bottle Ovens Approximately 10 Metres South West Occupied by Birchcroft China is a Grade II listed building in the Stoke-on-Trent local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 August 1979. Pottery works. 1 related planning application.
Sutherland Works Including Two Bottle Ovens Approximately 10 Metres South West Occupied by Birchcroft China
- WRENN ID
- weathered-brick-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Constituency
- Stoke-on-Trent South MP: Dr Allison Gardner (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 August 1979
- Type
- Pottery works
- Address
- Sutherland Works Including Two Bottle Ovens Approximately 10 Metres South West Occupied by Birchcroft China, ST3 1RH
- OS grid reference
- SJ 913 430
- Coordinates
- 52.98472, -2.13034
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sutherland Works is a pottery works dating from around 1850, located on Normacot Road in Longton, Stoke on Trent. The building is primarily constructed of brick with tiled roofs, although part of it has been replaced with corrugated iron due to recent repairs following fire damage.
The main range of the works faces the street and is built in two phases. It features a left-hand range with seven bays and a lower entrance block with six bays on each side of a projecting central bay that has an arched entrance leading to the rear yard. Above this entrance is a Palladian-style triple window. The entrance arch is stuccoed and moulded, with a pot in a garland serving as the keystone. The ground floor windows are round-arched and have a continuous string course that forms hood moulds, while the upper windows have stilted arches. A corbel table runs along the eaves, topped by coping over the central gable. The left-hand range may be a later addition, but it shares similar detailing, including the stuccoed entrance archway on the right.
Within the courtyard, there are three bottle ovens situated in the rear ranges, all circular hovels with updraught ovens.
Local climate
Sutherland Works Including Two Bottle Ovens Approximately 10 Metres South West Occupied by Birchcroft China 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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