Leach Pottery

Leach Pottery is a pottery building constructed in 1921 for Bernard Leach. It is made of stone rubble and rendered concrete blocks, topped with gable-ended scantle slate roofs, and features a louvred ridge ventilator on the kiln shed. The structure includes a long range with a kiln shed at the southwest end, throwing and glazing rooms with a loft above in the center, and a workshop with a studio above at the northeast end.

The exterior features a single-storey kiln shed at the southwest end, which has an outshut on the northwest side and a porch on the southeast front. The central throwing and glazing rooms are built of stone rubble and have sash windows. The northeast end contains a cross-wing workshop with a studio above, accessed by external stairs leading to a first-floor doorway on the southeast gable end.

Inside the kiln shed, there is a brick three-chambered climbing kiln designed by T. Matsubayashi in 1921 and rebuilt in 1923, along with a small tunnel kiln, an individual kiln, and a modern gas kiln. The glazing room features a corner fireplace with a cambered brick arch and two small terracotta niches above. In the throwing room, there are two of Leach's wheels, with a drying loft above. The studio at the northeast end, which was Leach's studio, is accessed via external stairs.

The Leach Pottery was established by Bernard Leach in collaboration with the Japanese potter Hamada Shoji, following Leach's return from studying in Japan in 1920.