Description

SJ 60 SE BROSELEY JACKFIELD

9/10005 Disused workshop immediately
to south of Kiln House at
Jackfield Tile Museum

GV II

Disused workshops. Late C19, altered. For the Craven Dunnill
Tile Company. Mottled brick tiled roof. 2 storeys, 7:2 bays.
Bays 1 and 2 each have large, original opening beneath wooden
lintel and relieving arch (bay 2 opening infilled). 2 square-
headed openings inserted on right. Original segmentally-arched
opening to bay 6 and 2 other segmentally-arched windows. 1st
floor: each bay has original window with chamfered brick sill
to casement with glazing bars under segmental arch. Bay 8
projects and has vertically boarded structure to 1st floor. Bay
9 with arched 1st floor window and external wooden staircase on
right return.
This building housed an early, gas-fired tunnel kiln through
which tile batches were drawn on trolleys. The 1st floor rooms
at right end housed Mosaic Rooms where women chopped strips of
file into "tesserae" and pasted them onto sheets of paper to form
mosaic floor patterns.

Listing NGR: SJ6867502932

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26546015

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Recommended Books

• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)