Victoria agricultural engineering works, Brentwood (EHER 15311)

Agricultural engineering works opened in 1855, now disused.

Original HER entry merged with NRHE data import: Fragmentary remains of ironworks set up in 1855 by Burgess and Key to manufacture McCormick reapers. <1> The Victoria Works appears on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1872. The site was of a considerable size comprising four main blocks; two fronting the Ongar Road with buildings along the south of the site and a long linear range to the east. Little remains of the original works which has been re-developed as a modern industrial complex. The northernmost building fronting Ongar Road has been completely demolished, as has the eastern range and most of the foundry with only the odd perimeter wall remaining. From the junction with North Road, to the south, original structures survive albeit having been converted into shops with dwellings above. These were probably ancillary to the foundry acting as an administrative and/or an office block. <2>