Former Gladstone And Park Place (Roslyn) Works

This complex comprises former pottery works, now a working museum, incorporating elements from the late 18th century through to the late 19th century and beyond. The main complex is the former Gladstone works, with the adjacent Roslyn works added later.

The main entrance block, facing Uttoxeter Road, dates from around 1860. It is three storeys high and has ten bays, featuring a wide carriage entry on the left with stuccoed quoins. Above the carriage entry are two round-arched windows, and a doorway with a fanlight and stuccoed quoins. Later inserted ground-floor windows are present, while the upper storeys retain sash windows with margin lights, a continuous sill band, and hood moulds with shield stops. The rear elevation includes fixed-light windows with stone and concrete lintels, and an inserted doorway now providing access to the museum.

A long, three-storeyed rear wing served as warehouses, offices and for administration. Adjoining this to the southeast is the main range of the Roslyn Works. This three-storeyed, twelve-bay range has a carriage door leading to a rear courtyard and weighbridge, with tripartite windows above. It also has fixed-light windows with stuccoed lintels and sills, moulded to the ground floor.

To the rear left is a range running at right-angles, containing two biscuit kilns dating from around 1940, incorporated into the building with hovels at the upper level. A small courtyard is surrounded by three-storeyed workshop ranges. The earliest workshop range of the Gladstone works, dating to around 1840, forms the western boundary of the site, with altered ground-floor openings and seven large workshop windows above. Further workshop ranges were added to the north and south later in the 19th century.

East of this building stands a biscuit kiln with a bulbous, narrow-necked hovel, first recorded on this site in 1856. Behind a nearby building, known as the "Red House," is a decorating kiln with a tall, stepped flue. South of the main site, an engine house and adjoining workshop range were built around 1878; the engine house is now missing its upper storey while the workshop range has been extensively rebuilt. To the east of the site are two kilns within wide, circular hovels, likely late 19th century but representing rebuilding of earlier structures first recorded in 1815. These are linked by a two-storeyed workshop range (recently extensively rebuilt) and a further workshop block that connects to another bottle oven, also probably a late 19th-century rebuilding of an earlier feature.