NHER 10183 (Monument record) - Post medieval brickworks

North of Hollies Farm.
Old brickworks. Disused.
Visited by E. Rose, 21 March 1979.

By track marked on 6 inch Ordnance Survey, a kiln, massive and tapering slightly towards top, similar to that at Peterstone.
Entrance on east through iron-braced doorway; sunken floor with holes from heating chamber, but stokeholes still buried.
Northeast of this, range of partly demolished buildings obviously made from bricks from the works, laid in herringbone and other odd patterns.
Traces of pits.
Farmer claims formerly another kiln and well on south.
Part owned by Hollies Farm and part by 'Grey Gables'.
Brick kiln marked here on (S1).
Samples at Bridewell Museum.
To the north is Hillcrest, formerly Brickyard Cottages, a twin single storey and attic house with a taller 'tower' at one end, very unusually with 'drip-steps' in the wall above the lower section as found in Yorkshire. Bricks of both sections with horizontal skintlings i.e. after about 1780. Central stack has domed bread oven with traces of later oven in front and above. Scythe blade found in stack, an interesting late occurrence of the tradition.
Fragments of kiln debris in garden
Norfolk Industrial Archaeology Society report of 1975 (fiche seen 1997) located the second kiln and some sheds built of reject bricks. Directory entries from 1836 to 1929 show same ownership as cider works to south.
E. Rose (NLA), 19 September 1997.

See NIAS records (S2)
Brickworks marked on O.S. 1ins (S3)
W. Arnold (HES) 06/12/2010