Monument record MDO30808 - Swanage Brick and Tile Company, New Swanage

The Swanage Brick and tile Company works were built in the 1930s and are still in use today (2014). The early layout of the works and the adjacent clay pit are visible on aerial photographs of 1945 to the north of Washpond Lane, New Swanage.

Three downdraught kilns, each of 42,000 bricks capacity, built in the 1930s, are still in use at this brickworks. The firm specialises in quality handmade facing bricks, but also produces commons and fireplace briquettes. Kilns were coal-fired, but have been converted to oil. This is the only works in Dorset still making clay bricks. Recorded by NRIM. Photographed, drawn and noted. <1>

The Swanage Brick and tile Company works were built in the 1930s and are still in use today (2014). The early layout of the works and the adjacent clay pit are visible on aerial photographs of 1945 to the north of Washpond Lane, New Swanage. The site consists of a number of small buidings, visible over an area measuring approximately 170 m by 105 m. These have now been replaced by a larger building. The clay pit was mapped to its extent in 1945. <2> These features were digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

<1> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, National Record of Industrial Monuments (NRIM), DO21 (Index). SDO17399.

Recorded by D Young, 05-Apr-1974

<2> Royal Air Force, 20-MAR-1945, RAF 106G/LA187 4001-2 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13445.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1514313 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Apr 15 2023 7:33AM