Phoenix Farm Brickworks

Phoenix Farm Brickworks, originally known as Phoenix Vitrified Paving and Firebrick Works, was established in 1874. The building is constructed from limestone with brick dressings and originally had a rectangular shape, measuring about 30 metres by 20 metres. It features a roof, two panelled back walls, and arched openings at the front. The front wall, which still stands, has six round arches made of three courses of brick. To the left, there is a return wall approximately 5 metres long, and the walls are about 2 metres high. The rear wall contains a similar arch on the right side.

Historically, the brickworks included beehive kilns at the front and a chimney. A railway line ran along the front of the site, and clay pits were located to the north and south. Clay prospecting occurred on Hingston Down in the 1860s, leading to the establishment of the Phoenix brickworks in 1874 at a cost of £60,000. The facility produced vitrified paving bricks for various uses, including mews and slaughterhouses, as well as heavy-duty blue bricks and glazed terracotta tiles. The brickworks operated a continuous burning Hoffman type kiln. In July 1875, a shipment of Phoenix bricks was sent to the Kronstadt naval dockyard, but the company ended its lease nine years later. The railway line was laid in 1873, and the brickworks is marked on the 1906 Ordnance Survey map.