The bottle kiln is the only remaining one of a pair built in 1922 for Peak Pottery.
The site was previously used for making pit props and bricks!
The Peak Pottery Bottle Kiln sits on a very industrious site. It was originally an estate sawmill, making pit-props for the Newdigate Estate coal mines. In the mid 19th Century additional buildings were erected to house a small brick works, using materials from a nearby clay pit.
The bricks were fired in beehive kilns!
Two bottle-neck kilns were built by the ‘West Hallam Art & Earthenware Company’, as Peak Pottery, in the 1920s, utilising the earlier buildings and adding further workshops and a boiler house with a square chimney.
Two famous designs of this pottery were the West Hallam Swallow and the West Hallam Rabbit!
The pottery sadly failed in 1933 and one kiln was demolished in the 1950s causing local concern. The remaining outer kiln shell (called a hovel) was eventually registered as a listed building.
It is a grade II listed hovel and the entry can be read – HERE!
The Stone family purchased the derelict site in 1983. Charles Stone and his sons designed and built the present complex, of which only the kiln shell is an original building. The business here has been run by the Stone family ever since.
Now it is run as a business called The Bottle Kiln – home of good food and beautiful objects!
Check out their beautiful website – HERE!
The Bottle Kiln, High Lane West, West Hallam, Derbyshire, DE7 6HP
The bottle kiln is the only remaining one of a pair built in 1922 for Peak Pottery.
The site was previously used for making pit props and bricks!
The Peak Pottery Bottle Kiln sits on a very industrious site. It was originally an estate sawmill, making pit-props for the Newdigate Estate coal mines. In the mid 19th Century additional buildings were erected to house a small brick works, using materials from a nearby clay pit.
The bricks were fired in beehive kilns!
Two bottle-neck kilns were built by the ‘West Hallam Art & Earthenware Company’, as Peak Pottery, in the 1920s, utilising the earlier buildings and adding further workshops and a boiler house with a square chimney.
Two famous designs of this pottery were the West Hallam Swallow and the West Hallam Rabbit!
The pottery sadly failed in 1933 and one kiln was demolished in the 1950s causing local concern. The remaining outer kiln shell (called a hovel) was eventually registered as a listed building.
It is a grade II listed hovel and the entry can be read – HERE!
The Stone family purchased the derelict site in 1983. Charles Stone and his sons designed and built the present complex, of which only the kiln shell is an original building. The business here has been run by the Stone family ever since.
Now it is run as a business called The Bottle Kiln – home of good food and beautiful objects!
Check out their beautiful website – HERE!
The Bottle Kiln, High Lane West, West Hallam, Derbyshire, DE7 6HP