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Gladstone Pottery Museum

Site 9 - Uttoxeter Road, Longton, ST3 1PQ


Gladstone Pottery Museum exterior

Type: Updraught Bottle Ovens, Hovel Type and Muffle Kiln. Four updraught ovens and a muffle kiln.

Date: A bottle oven first appears in this location on the 1866 OS map The muffle kiln is first evident on the 1913 OS map.

Listing: II and within the Longton Conservation Area

Past Use: Pottery factory established c.1855 by Thomas Cooper on the site of an earlier manufactory. 

Current Use: Museum. Home to Gladstone Pottery Museum.

Link to Member Website: Gladstone Pottery Museum


 Updraught Hovel-typeMuffle Kiln at GladstoneMuffle Kiln