NHER 43174 (Monument record) - Site of former Coffin factory, Fairland Street

Coffin factory.

February 2006. Field Observaiton.
Complex of buildings with ground floors and flint and brick and upper floors timber framed and weatherboarded with large windows. Parts may predate use as factory but all seem to be 19th century.
Detailed record to be provided as Planning Condition.
E. Rose (NLA), 4 February 2006.

July 2016. Building Survey.
Examination of former coffin factory buildings, ahead of proposed redevelopment of site.
The earliest element of the complex was found to be brick building in the north-east part of the site (Building 1), which has features (such of as tumbled-in brickwork in its gable) suggestive of a late 18th or early 19th-century date. It is much altered, although a room and window at the western end were probably original, along with an opening immediately to the east. It has some characteristics of an animal house with a hayloft, but could also have originated as a workshop. Two further buildings were added in the mid 19th century (Buildings 2 and 3), one of which incorporated the west wall of the earlier structure. These later buildings both had first-floor workshops constructed entirely from wood.
See report (S1) for further details.
P. Watkins (HES), 30 March 2025.