NHER 12583 (Monument record) - Post medieval brickworks/kilns

6 June, 1977. E. Rose (NAU).
Pearce's Whiting Works

Lime kiln. Also used for whiting.
Pot filled with earth to ground level - only a wing of bricks remain visible.
Two sloping entrances emerge some feet away on southwest and northeast, with almost circular openings.
Northeast has circumference complete, but is full of rubble.
Southwest has recently been cleared out.
A secondary kiln was nearby, and traces of brickwork to east may be remains of this.
E. Rose (NAU) 6 June 1977.

There are several remains of corrugated iron whiting sheds to north, and at 2198 2273, in base of a deep pit now filled with rubbish, what appears to be an old flint wall against the base of the pit; but this is probably of no consequence and so has not (yet at least) been numbered.

See (S1) for history of whiting works (lime kiln here since late 18th century) and description of mill and vats remaining.
Also mention of traces of a brickworks.
The other kiln was in fact some distance to the northwest, see 1926 25in Ordnance Survey.

Site extended, now including sites NHER 13988, 9594 and 9447, and also including previousely un-numbered wall mentioned above, on basis of 1886 first edition 25in Ordnance Survey which shows both lime kilns, the whole of the whiting works, plus a brick kiln and brickworks.
E. Rose (NLA) 15 September 2000.

Originally recorded in the parishes of Eaton and Lakenham, now part of Norwich.

See also NIAS records (S2)
W. Arnold (HES) 08/12/2010