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Heritage & Conservation

Project Details

£50,000 to £99,999

Listed Building - Grade II*, New Build, Within a Conservation Area

Practice

CTD Architects (Christopher Taylor Design Ltd)

Clerk Bank House , Clerk Bank , LEEK , Staffordshire , ST13 5HE , United Kingdom

Mellards Warehouse Comprehensive conservation repair and refurbishment of derelict former ironmongers warehouse to create a small mixed-use 'mews' development of offices, cafe & retail units. Supported with grant-aid from the Newcastle-under-Lyme PSiCA as part of its contribution to the regeneration of the town centre. Consolidation & conservation repairs to brick kiln hovel structure. Grade II Listed sole surviving 1821 'hovel' (chimney & shelter) to former pottery works bottle kiln now part of a heritage museum, conference & visitors centre. Consolidation work and conservation repairs to 6No. bottle ovens at the Grade II* Gladstone Pottery Museum & Roslyn Works including the installation of new clear glass skylight cappings to provide a degree of protection from rain ingress, whilst maintaining natural through-ventilation and also visually enhancing the visitor experience through open views from inside the kilns. Extensive internal and external repairs and refurbishment also took place within Roslyn Works, which included various contemporary interventions External facelift works to the historic Church Street entrance area of the Grade II Listed Spode Works. The works comprised of specialist masonry cleaning, decoration, masonry repairs & repointing, timber window repairs, re-surfacing and specialist repair and refurbishment of the prominent historic entrance arch signage. The facelift works have helped to preserve the character of this historic site and conservation area and also supported public perceptions about the future generation of Stoke town centre. Grant funded by English Heritage; Essential conservation fabric repairs to the Church tower of the historic Grade I Listed St. Peter’s Church, works comprised of taking down and re-building the embattled parapet upstand walls and crocketted finials; re-pointing the Belfry external elevations; consolidating the corner diagonal buttresses; renewing the Tower lead roof covering and improving the north side parapet gutter outlet and internal rainwater downpipe arrangement; upgrading the lightning protection system and reinstating the Tower flag pole. The Prince’s Regeneration Trust raised the funds to acquire Middleport Pottery and save production, jobs and preserve the buildings and its archive in 2009. The comprehensive scheme of conservation repair and refurbishment works to the site were completed in 2014. The former Packing House building benefited from external fabric repairs during the refurbishment, but internally the finish was left mostly unaltered. The internal alterations to the Packing House to create The Prince of Wales Studios which includes a gallery and flexible artist workspace over two floors required a careful and considered approach through material choice, design and attention to detail. A modern interpretation of surviving relics found throughout the pottery was used as inspiration for the design.