Brickyard Cottages Measham, England
Listed Building Data
Brickyard Cottages has been designated a Grade II listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1177890
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II
- Date Listed
- 20 December 1983
- Name
- BRICKYARD COTTAGES
- Location
- BRICKYARD COTTAGES, 1-6, BOSWORTH ROAD
- Parish
- Measham
- District
- North West Leicestershire
- County
- Leicestershire
- Grid Reference
- SK 33657 12122
- Easting
- 433657.0000
- Northing
- 312122.0000
Description
Reputedly brick drying shed, now range of cottages, of c1800. Red brick - Measham gobs - with brick eaves and band over arches and plain tile roof with 2 rebuilt ridge stacks, end stack and C20 left end projecting stack. Long range of 3 storeys, ground floor being row of 12 arches, some part blocked and all with garage or other doors.
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
MEASHAM BOSWORTH ROAD SK 31 SW 4/34 Nos. 1 - 6 Brickyard Cottages (Consecutive) GV II Reputedly brick drying shed, now range of cottages, of c1800. Red brick - Measham gobs - with brick eaves and band over arches and plain tile roof with 2 rebuilt ridge stacks, end stack and C20 left end projecting stack. Long range of 3 storeys, ground floor being row of 12 arches, some part blocked and all with garage or other doors. Above is 7 window front of renewed or altered casements with mostly flat lintels. Outshut on right end. Left end cottage (No. 1) and left end rendered. Extensions and renewed casements to rear and C20 dormer on rear of No. 6. Reputedly built as brick drying shed (Falconer, DOE Industrial Monuments Survey, 1981, p2) and said locally to have been the brickyard where Wilkes produced the Measham gobs.
Listing NGR: SK3365712122
