Survey Data
Reg No
15701224
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
Chimney
Date
1845 - 1850
Coordinates
318799, 157107
Date Recorded
08/02/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Remains of brick and tile works complex, established 1847, including: Freestanding chimney on a square plan. Decommissioned, 1971. Now disused. Part creeper- or ivy-covered red brick English Garden Wall bond walls with red brick header bond corbelled stepped capping. Single round-headed oven with red brick header bond voussoirs. Set in unkempt grounds.
Appraisal
An eye-catching chimney surviving as an interesting relic of the Courtown Brick and Tile Works complex established (1847) by James Thomas Stopford (1794-1858), fourth Earl of Courtown (Kinsella 1982, 54-7).