Wetheriggs Pottery

Wetheriggs Pottery is a Grade II listed site that includes a kiln, workshops, drying shed, kiln room, steam house, and blunger, built in 1855 as a brick and tileworks for the Brougham estate. The buildings feature red brick walls and pantile roofs, with stone and brick chimney stacks. They are arranged in a U-shape around a small courtyard, with an attached steam house and blunger. The bee-hive kiln is housed within a square brick building with plank doors. The long workshops have plank doors and casement windows. One section is divided into an open-sided drying shed and an enclosed kiln room. The rear steam house has plank doors and round-arched casement windows, along with a tall square chimney stack. The blunger is a circular brick-lined pit with a central pivoted paddle for mixing clay and water, powered by the steam engine in the steam house. This pottery continued to use traditional production methods until the mid-20th century and has since reopened as a working pottery, allowing public access while preserving original machinery and traditional designs, although it now features an electrically fired kiln. The current shop and house are not of special interest.