Listed Buildings
in Stoke-on-Trent and area
Herbert Minton Building (former Art School), Stoke
Area
Stoke |
Street
London Road |
Heritage No.
133 A |
Grade
II |
Date Listed
09 April 1991 |
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Building:
Herbert Minton
Building (former Art School) |
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Location:
STOKE ON TRENT LONDON ROAD,
Stoke |
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Description:
c.1853 by Murray and Pugin for Minton's, Brick with Stone
Bands |
Herbert Minton
Building (former Art School)
Former Art School, now offices. Circa 1853, by
Murray and Pugin for Mintons.
Brick with stone bands and dressings and Welsh
slate roof. 2-storeyed, 7 bays, the central bay advanced.
Entrance in central bay in architrave with polygonal shafts and
stilted arch with relief panels in the spandrels. Windows to
each side are 4-pane sashes with stilted arched stone heads and
keystones which form console brackets for projecting balconette
with wrought iron railings.
Upper mullioned and transomed windows have
quatrefoil tracery in gothic arched heads. Facade is enriched
with tiled bands depicting stylised birds and foliage, and there
is a continuous foliated string course, and hood moulds to upper
windows. Moulded stone console brackets and foliate panels as
eaves cornice.
The upper storey was formerly a studio, and
survives intact. Built as a memorial for the potter Herbert
Minton.
Upper mullioned and transomed
windows
have quatrefoil tracery in gothic arched heads.
photos: Steve Birks
2001
  
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