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Summary

Description

Circa 1940. 2-storey with single storey wings, T-plan Art Deco former pottery. Channelled red brick and tiles. Green and black tiled base course extending to ground floor cill level; white tiled ground floor lintel course; continuous projecting cills and lintels to 1st floor windows; brick band and coped eaves courses.

SE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical; 2-storey, 3-bay entrance block: doorway to centre of ground floor, 3 steps flanked by horizontally-channelled black tiled walls with Art Deco pylons, curved to outer angles, shallow canopy oversailing; 3 narrow windows to each bay of 1st floor, green tiled central flagpole base, flanked by remains of "Southhook Pottery" lettering; single storey wings to left and right, inner bays obscured by advanced canopied bays, 3 windows flanking to left and right, curved outer angles with windows to each.

NE ELEVATION: wing advanced to ground floor, regularly placed windows, regular fenestration to right return; 3 narrow windows to left of recessed 1st floor, advanced flue flanking to right, 3 windows to stepped-down bay to right, single window to ground and 1st floors of right return. 2-storey 7-bay recessed "works" to outer right, near-regular fenestration to each bay at ground and 1st floors.

NW ELEVATION: near-symmetrical; 3-bay "works" doorway near-centre of ground floor, flanked by bipartite window to left and right, 3 regularly spaced windows to 1st floor.

SW ELEVATION: wing advanced to ground floor, irregular fenestration, small cantilevered canopy over window to right; 3 narrow windows to right of recessed 1st floor, advanced flanking flue to left, single window to stepped-down bay to left; doorway and window to ground floor and single window to 1st floor of left return. Recessed 2-storey, 7-bay "works" to outer left; loading doors to bays to left under corrugated canopy addition with iron staircase, irregular fenestration and openings to remainder.

Metal casement windows, predominantly boarded up. Roofing material not seen (2001). Coped stacks breaking eaves, circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: Typical Art Deco interior to public areas: mottled pottery tiles to high dado, veneered doors and doorframes. Large Art Deco tiled fireplace to management office.

GATES, GATEPIERS, BOUNDARY WALLS AND RAILINGS: pair of cement rendered square-plan brick gatepiers to S an SE with decoratively filleted black tiled caps, 2-leaf geometric iron gates to S, single leaf pedestrian gate to SE; harled walls with glazed ceramic coping flanking gatepiers, surmounted in places by simple iron railings.

Statement of Special Interest

Across the N & W of Kilmarnock is a belt of fireclay that runs from Saltcoats to Hurlford. Three companies worked the belt: Gargieston Agricultural tiles, on Troon Road, Longpark; Shanks and Co Ltd at Barrhead who produced bathroom and toilet tiles and Southhook. The Southhook pottery and pit was once well known in the area as it employed 500 workers. It had manufactured various types of pottery goods including sanitary ware, tiles and glazed bricks from the late 19th century until the 1970's. The "Cheeny Buildings" (21 - 29 North Hamilton Street, listed separately) are believed to have been built with white glazed bricks made at this pottery. The factory itself also produced architectural faience, some of which feature on the building and various local authority housing within Kilmarnock. The fireclay works to the W of the pottery (which existed prior to the Southhook Pottery building) were named Bonnyton, as is the estate that has grown there. Southhook Pottery is a typical 1930's suburban industrial building. The materials and wide span horizontal principal elevation with clearly defined floors and entrance emphasised by the extra height and decoration are all features of this building period. This is a good example of a brick built factory.

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