Bridge St. Foundry

Coggeshall Iron Foundry, Bridge Street was founded in 1816 and closed in about 1887. It is the only standing example of a nineteenth century small iron foundry in Essex. The building is partly brick-built, timber-framed and weather-boarded but little of the interior has survived. Later the building was used by C & H Warren who were carriage builders. A watercourse runs beneath the building and was perhaps once used to drive machinery, its supply was drawn from Robins Brook and the leet still runs alongside 'The Gravel' but is now usually dry except in floods. I took the photos in late summer 1989. The buildings have since been converted for housing and office use.