1967-2002

The building that housed the Pottery at 4/6 Moreton Street, Pimlico in central London appears on maps of about 1830 and has Georgian details in some of the rooms.
It may well have lost its ground floor when Cubitt raised the ground level of this area before he began his large-scale development in Victorian times. The first floors became the ground floors of some of the older houses apparently!

Barry Guppy took on a short-term lease to use the building as a temporary family home whilst converting a 27 roomed ancient farmhouse in Provence - left unfinished! This London building became a home and enlarged workshop/gallery over the course of thirty-five years. This direct relationship with its clientele enabled Barry Guppy to develop a very particular and wide range of innovative work rather than create a fashionable 'product' at a remove from another gallery's idea of what its clients may want. Socially there had also been much interaction with other artists and students who rented space or had been taught in the Pottery.

There were three kilns on the premises, a 20cu.ft. gas kiln and two smaller ones. White clays came there from North Devon and a stoneware clay for students' use from a quarry in Cheshire.