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Description: | PRN 40054
Site of old brickyard. Research in advance of a watching brief on a pipeline that passed this site indicated that the pits were dug for clay used on site for the manufacture of bricks and perhaps land drainage pipes. The brick works started production after 1818, were in full production by, or before, 1888 and subsequently declined and were effectively abandoned by 1904. {1}{2}
There is an early 19th century brick kiln, at 40054a, on the site listed grade II this was suggested as the site of the brick kilns of Tattershall Castle (in about 1440 see PRN 43543). {3}
The Stixwould kiln (TF185664) was probably built in the late 1850s, and it was from here that red bricks were provided for almost every house, farmstead and other buildings in the village. The Turnor family of Stoke Rochford and Panton owned the whole of Stixwould in the nineteenth century, as well as the kiln itself. The last bricks were fired in the mid 1890s and the kiln and its associated buildings then became part of a farm small-holding. When the Turnor estate was sold in 1911, the tenant bought both the former kiln and the brickyard cottage alongside, which had been rented from the estate. During the course of the twentieth century the former ancillary buildings (drying shed, plug-mill) were removed from the site and one end of the kiln was modified to convert it into a workshop or store. The footprint of the 1905 edition of the 25 inch OS map suggests that there were firing sheds on either side of the kiln.{4}
A scotch type brick kiln at 40054a which is now used as a store. It was built in the early 19th century from red brick and has a rectangular plan with eight arched flue holes along the side. The left hand end has a planked door and a fixed light window. At the other end are two sloping brick buttresses. The roof is a pointed brick arched vault with five rectangular vents at the top. {5} | Subjects: | General Archaeology | Temporal: | 1800 - 1899 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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