The village of Catcliffe, located in South Yorkshire, England, is the oldest surviving structure of this kind in Western Europe. This glass cone-shaped building can be traced back to the mid-18th century and was built around 1740. It represents an important relic of the early glass manufacturing industry and witnesses the development of glass production technology and industrialization process. The structure is unique, with a carved sandstone base at the bottom and a brick and stone structure at the top. This huge glass cone-shaped building was used for annealing in the glass production process at that time, which allowed the melted glass to slowly cool to avoid internal stress causing cracking.