Late 19th century workers housing, 21-32 St Thomas's Road, South Fambridge (EHER 40626)

A terrace of industrial workers cottages built by Wimshurst, Hollick and Co. for the nearby factory EHER 81655.

2005-2006. Thematic survey. Thomas Hollick built the engineering factory (EHER 81655) in South Fambridge in 1898, and along with it two rows of workmen's cottages and a club house. Electric cranes and dynamos were manufactured here until 1906 when Wimshurst, Hollick and Co closed and the factory was put to the first of many subsequent uses. Two rows of cottages were built for the staff, nos. 1-20 on the East side of St Thomas's Road (since demolished and replaced with new housing, see EHER 81656) and nos. 21-32 on the West side. Nos. 19 and 20 were used as a boarding house. The 1901 census shows most of these houses, including the boarding house, occupied by men employed in the engineering industry, presumably at Hollick's. The surviving houses are a terrace of 12, built of brick and rendered and painted over, with tiled roofs. Judging by the variety of windows, doors and porches most of these houses have been renovated and altered. <1>