1-6 Brickyard Cottages

A range of cottages, originally built around 1800, located on Bosworth Road in Measham. It is believed the building began as a brick drying shed. The structure is red brick, notable for the "Measham gobs" bricks used in its construction, with brick eaves, a band above the arches, and a plain tile roof featuring two rebuilt ridge stacks, an end stack, and a 20th-century projecting stack on the left end. The long, three-story range features a ground floor with a row of twelve arches, some of which are now blocked and have been fitted with garage or other doors. The upper floors have a seven-window front, with mostly flat lintels over renewed or altered casement windows. An outshut is attached to the right end. Number 1, the left-end cottage, has a rendered facade. Extensions and renewed casements have been added to the rear, along with a 20th-century dormer on the rear of Number 6. The building's local history suggests it was once the brickyard where Wilkes produced the distinctive Measham gobs.