Bottle Oven at rear of 120 Uttoxeter Road and 23, 25 and 27 Short Street is a Grade II listed building in the Stoke-on-Trent local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 August 1979. Former pottery works and cottages.

Bottle Oven at rear of 120 Uttoxeter Road and 23, 25 and 27 Short Street

WRENN ID
dusted-panel-sparrow
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
Former pottery works and cottages
Address
Bottle Oven at rear of 120 Uttoxeter Road and 23, 25 and 27 Short Street, Bottle Oven to Rear Of, City of Stoke-On-Trent
OS grid reference
SJ 915 430
Coordinates
52.98458, -2.12799
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Bottle Oven located at the rear of 120 Uttoxeter Road and 23, 25, and 27 Short Street in Longton is a notable structure from the mid-19th century, with later refurbishments. This brick bottle oven is a tall, circular hovel used for the calcining process. The site also features a row of three workers' cottages, each designed with a single-unit plan, which face Short Street.

Local climate

Bottle Oven at rear of 120 Uttoxeter Road and 23, 25 and 27 Short Street 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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