Historical glass production facilities in the United Kingdom
A glass cone is a glass production structure historically unique to the United Kingdom. A glass cone had a large central furnace, a circular platform where the glassblowers worked, and smaller furnaces around its wall to ensure the glass did not cool too quickly.[1][2]
There are four surviving glass cones:
Catcliffe Glass Cone, South Yorkshire
Lemington Glass Works, Newcastle upon Tyne
Northern Glass Cone, Alloa Glass Works, a Scottish scheduled monument,[3]
Red House Cone in Wordsley, granted listed building status in 1966[4]
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