Pot Bank Occupied by W Moorcroft Limited is a Grade II listed building in the Stoke-on-Trent local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 August 1979. Pot bank.

Pot Bank Occupied by W Moorcroft Limited

WRENN ID
ragged-corridor-dock
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Stoke-on-Trent
Constituency
Stoke-on-Trent North MP: David Williams (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 August 1979
Type
Pot bank
Address
Pot Bank Occupied by W Moorcroft Limited, Sandbach Road, City of Stoke-On-Trent
OS grid reference
SJ 877 491
Coordinates
53.03941, -2.18465
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This small pot bank, built in 1913 for William Moorcroft, is located on Sandbach Road in Cobridge, Stoke on Trent. It was designed for the production of Florian ware and features brick construction with plain tiled roofs. The building consists of a series of single-storeyed gabled ranges. Notably, the southern range contains the only surviving circular updraught kiln from the works, which does not have a hovel at ground floor level. The design of the works reflects early 20th-century concerns for health, hygiene, and functionalism, making it one of the first single-storey factories built in the potteries.

Local climate

Pot Bank Occupied by W Moorcroft Limited 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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