Tilesheads Farm Brick Kilns
Tilesheads Farm Brick Kilns
HER Number
1582
District
S Tyneside
Site Name
Tilesheads Farm Brick Kilns
Place
Cleadon
Map Sheet
NZ36SE
Class
Industrial
Site Type: Broad
Brick and Tilemaking Site
Site Type: Specific
Brick Kiln
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Demolished Building
Description
'Brick Works' are shown on First edition Ordnance Survey plan. A pair of horizontal through-draught kilns survives on a site otherwise cleared of its former buildings and now host to a piggery. Three 19th century brick making sites were situated within a quarter of a mile radius in this area. The surviving kilns recorded in 1994 were then due for demolition.
Easting
436520
Northing
562080
Grid Reference
NZ436520562080
Sources
<< HER 1582 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1854
I. Ayris & S.M. Linsley, 1994, A Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of Tyne and Wear, p 45; Northern Archaeological Associates, 2015, The Cleadon Village Atlas; Greenwood's Plan of Durham, 1820
I. Ayris & S.M. Linsley, 1994, A Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of Tyne and Wear, p 45; Northern Archaeological Associates, 2015, The Cleadon Village Atlas; Greenwood's Plan of Durham, 1820