Document in Middleton Collection records an agreement to set up a glasshouse at Awsworth, dated 23/07/1617. (1)
Building shown, but not named. (2)
Glass House Yard, at above grid ref. (3)
There are extensive humps and bumps where the old Glasshouse Yard used to be. (4)
At the far W end of the New Awsworth estate is marked 'The Glass House' (5), next to a house belonging to Mr. Buckilie. … Proof that glass manufacture at Awsworth continued until at least late C18 is shown by a letter in the Nottinghamshire Archives Office dated 31 July 1799 … but had ceased by 1832. (6)
It was working in 1696. In 1765, an advert offering the Nottingham glass house for sale says there were no operating glass houses in the area at the time. … A public house was installed on the site. The pub was demolished to make way for a house. When Jack was putting in sanitary machinery in his garden, a stone tunnel came to light that appeared to run to where the pub cellars were. From Jack's description this is most likely to have beeen one of the air tunnels that are characteristic of English coal fired glass furnaces. The most important find is ... part of the furnace structure, on its surface are preserved traces of some of the glass ('smalt') that was worked in the furnace. The production of smalt in this country then (C17) is apparently unrecorded.. The next find is part of the base of a glass making pot. The third find is a brick showing glassmaking residues on one end. (7)
The documentary evidence I have seen suggests glass was being produced at Awsworth between c.1620 - c.1640 and from c.1665 - c.1695. It is very likely the glass house would have been rebuilt in the 1660s, possibly on the initial site or on a nearby site. There could be the remains of between one and three furnaces at Awsworth. (8)
Awsworth glasshouse(s). (9)
Grid ref centred on site of pub.
See M2299, M18308 for nearby bell pits.

<1> Thoroton Society, 1962, TTS, p 24-34 (Published document). SNT376.

<2> Sanderson G, 1835, 20 miles around Mansfield - 2 in (Map). SNT48.

<3> OS, 1836-9, 1in 1836-9 (Map). SNT1039.

<4> Notts CC, 1979, Features of Local Interest (Unpublished document). SNT173.

<5> Hewitt, R, Apr 1690, A Map of New Awsworth in the County of Nottingham. Parcell of the Estate of J. Willoughby (Map). SNT2120.

<6> JSAC, May 1994, An Archaeological Assessment of the Proposed A6096 Awsworth and Cossall Bypass (Unpublished document). SNT2121.

Other Refs: Section 4.9

<7> Maloney, B and Brain, C, July 2005, Awsworth Glass House Yard (Unpublished document). SNT2123.

<8> Brain, C, Sept 2004, Glasshouse Yard at Awsworth (Unpublished document). SNT2122.

<9> Thoroton Society, 1998, TTS, pp 99 - 101 (Serial). SNT1506.