Cleadon, Tilesheads Farm Brick Kilns

HER Number:
1582

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
Cleadon, 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:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

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:
3652

Northing:
6208

Grid Reference:
NZ36526208

Lats/Lons:

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