Site of post medieval brickworks at Frinton-on-Sea (EHER 15624)

There was a brickworks off Witton Wood Lane opposite and south west of the water Tower, west of Old Kirby Road and west of Fifth Avenue. No sign of the brickworks remain and the likelihood of archaeological remains is low.

The site of a post medieval brickworks off Witton Wood Lane opposite and south west of the water Tower, west Of Old Kirby Road and west of Fifth Avenue. (Fifth Avenue was south of and parallel to Witton Wood Lane). The brickworks dated from the 1890's to circa First World War and produced bricks. There were no brickworks on this site when the first edition O.S. map was surveyed in the 1870's but was established later in the nineteenth century. The owner and workers lived in Upper Fourth Avenue. Site Assessment: The Brickworks were standing but disused by 1923. There are no longer any surviving buildings and the entire site is now covered with bungalows in Cranford Close and the western end of Fifth Avenue. Many of the bungalows appear to be low lying which is consistent with clay excavation. The possibility of archaeological remains is remote. Refs: OS 25in. 2nd Edn., 1897 (sheet XXXIX.6) and OS 25in. 1923 (sheet XXXIX.16) <1>