Brannam's - Terracotta Pottery Roundswell Industrial Estate, Barnstaple(nr Sainsbury) Tel 01271 343035 - Just outside of Barnstaple on the Roundswell Industrial Estate near Sainsbury. Tel 01271 343035
With all the equipment at your disposal and supervised by our skilled craftsmen, try your own skill and create a masterpiece to take home with you as a momentum of your visit. You can see all the processes of making the pottery, right through to firing your own work in the kiln.
The guided pottery tours are something special. You will experience traditional craftmanship used to throw giant terracotta pottery. Guides will take you through the various processes of manufacture, craftsmanship, design and finishing.
The Brannam Museum illustrates the wide range of products made for over 100 years displayed on 1900 shop fittings. The display incorporates many unique and commemorative pieces, illustrating the importance in Ceramic Design of the Barnstaple Art Potters of which Brannam is the sole survivor.
Brannam's Discount Shop has an extensive range of garden and interior pottery from around the world - featuring exciting Dragon jars from the far east, delightful terracotta hedgehogs, the glazed animal range and of course the Traditional Terracotta.
Potters Break Restaurant and coffee shop - Watch the potters working through glass viewing panels.
Throw your own pot!
Opening times - Tours and Visitor Throwing Mon - Fri 9.00am - 4.15pm
Shop and Restaurant Mon - Sat 9.00am - 5pm (plus Sundays in Summer)
Old Corn Mill & Pottery
Unique pottery made at The Mill by Robin Gray. Inexpensive giftware, tableware and individual pieces. See a demonstration on the potter's wheel or you can make a pot on the wheel. Your pot can be fired/glazed, initialed and sent to you.
Have a look around the working 16th Century Watermill. Magnificent restoration from dereliction, containing a wealth of information and interesting machinery.
- Cream Teas and light refreshments in Tea Rooms or Mill Gardens.
- Hele Bay, Ilfracombe Tel 01271 863185
Roger Cockram Ceramics - Chittlehampton Pottery
Gallery and showroom showing four kinds of high quality ceramics - practical, attractive kitchen wares; individual pieces on themes of water, animals and plants; unusual candlesticks and decorative figures plus prints of paintings by Ros Cockram.
Each of Roger's 'special' pieces is is thrown on the potter's wheel and then partly dried. Then many hours are spent modeling and painting the work, in a variety of ways, before it is ready to fire. The pots are taken to a very high temperature in a slightly smoky atmosphere in order to make them strong and to develop the unique range of colours and surfaces.
- Chittlehampton 01769 540420
- Open Mon-Fri 10am - 1pm 2pm - 5pm
- Chittlehampton is a lovely village with a friendly pub, splendid church, thatched cottages and traditional village square.
Monkleigh Pottery
Monkleigh Pottery is a traditional craft pottery situated in the outbuildings of a small farm. The workshop is sited in what was the farm dairy and the milking parlour has been transformed into a large showroom. There is an open workshop policy where visitors are welcome to chat to the potter as they watch pots being made or glazed.
Visitors can browse for as long as they like. There is an extensive range of well designed and carefully made pots suitable for the oven, microwave and dishwasher. There is also a range of vases for the flower arranger.
- Monkleigh nr Bideford Tel 01805 623194
- Suitable for wheelchairs
- From Torringtontake the Bideford road and turn left at the bottom of the steep station hill. Follow the signs to Monkleigh and you will see our sign.
Hartland Pottery
This is a small pottery established by Clive C. Pearson in 1972 at his workshop at Welcome, before moving to Hartland in January 1981. Mainly stoneware is produced including coffee, wine and tea sets, mugs, jugs , bowls and many items of oven to tableware.
Chün glaze, a beautiful deep blue glaze originally from the Sung Dynasty is the favourite glaze. Functional oil lamps are a popular item.
Visitors can see various processes taking place including the throwing of pots on the wheel.
- The pottery is open most of the year, but during the summer months will be open Monday to Saturday 9:30am - 6p.m.
- North Street, Hartland, nr Bideford 01237 441693
Hatherleigh Pottery
The workshops and showroom are set around a cobbled courtyard which, for most of the year, is filled with flowers and greenery.
A visit to the pottery and gallery is intended to be a gentle experience and you are encouraged to take your time. There is always something going on - preparing clay, throwing pots, loading [and unloading] the kiln glazing and even packing up orders!
- The studios and gallery are situated on the main street (Market Street) close to the square
- Also on show - hand-dyed and printed fabrics in a wide range of vibrant colours and designs
- Hatherleigh 01837 810624
Clovelly Pottery
This pottery established in 1992 offers an extensive range of some of the best pots available from five Cornish and Devon potters in our own showroom.
The workshop and showroom are just below the main Clovelly Visitor Centre, on the way to the famous cobbled village of Clovelly. The workshop and showroom is open most of the year.
Visitors to the workshop can throw their own pot as a souvenier, subject to supervision and a small fee.
- The pottery is open most of the year, but during the summer months will be open Monday to Saturday 9:30am - 6p.m.
- Clovelly, nr Bideford 01237 431042
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