Royal Worcester Porcelain Works: Pan Grinding Shop and Attached Buildings is a Grade II* listed building in the Worcester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1990. A Victorian Industrial. 4 related planning applications.
Royal Worcester Porcelain Works: Pan Grinding Shop and Attached Buildings
- WRENN ID
- silver-soffit-quill
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Worcester
- Constituency
- Worcester MP: Tom Collins (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1990
- Type
- Industrial
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Royal Worcester Porcelain Works: Pan Grinding Shop and Attached Buildings, Severn Street
- OS grid reference
- SO 851 542
- Coordinates
- 52.18665, -2.2183
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Royal Worcester Porcelain Works includes a pan grinding shop along with an attached engine house, boiler house, and chimney. Built between 1862 and 1870 for the Royal Porcelain Company, the complex was modified around the 1970s. It is constructed of red brick and features slate roofs.
The layout consists of a long, narrow range running from west to east, with a three-storey grinding house, a two-storey engine house, and a single-storey boiler house, which has a hexagonal brick chimney. The exterior of the grinding shop displays rusticated pilasters with recessed panels and segmental windows in the bays, along with parapets on all buildings. The boiler house features paired, divided segmental windows set within segmental-headed recessed panels.
Inside, the pans used for grinding bone remain intact, along with their devices on two floors, which are made of cast iron and jack arch construction. The ground floor serves as an undercroft for the gear drives. The engine house floor is also intact, showcasing the heavy joist that supported the engine beam and the gap for the beam itself. A cantilevered stair and early electrical switchgear are present. The boiler house underwent modifications in the late 20th century with the addition of gas-fired calcinating kilns.
This site is one of only two known intact examples of this type of building, the other being Shirley's Etruscan Bone and Flint Mill in Etruria.
Local climate
Royal Worcester Porcelain Works: Pan Grinding Shop and Attached Buildings receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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