Monument record 0994400000 - Winters Garage, Church Street, Penn

Evaluation trial trenching carried out by Oxford Archaeology in March 2008 identified a possible late medieval quarry pit, at least 5.6m in diameter and over 0.5m deep, which apears to have been patially backfilled with waste material, including tile wasters, in the 16th century. The backfilling was completed in the 19th century prior to the building of Hampden House in the early 20th century and was overlain by a 0.35m thick cultivated garden soil probably originating from the use of the site as a kitchen garden before the garage was built in the 1950s. See report for detail (B1).
NGR to quarry pit.



Fresh evidence of the existence and approximate location of one of the Penn tile-kilns known to have been in operation in the 14th c has been found.
A concentration of tiles, many of which were clearly wasters and debris in connexion with a kiln, was found in 1939 during the digging of a cess-pit in the garden of a cottage, 'A' (SU 90809346) on the north side of the road from Penn to Tyler's Green, opposite Slade's Garage and the lane to Beacon Hill. The finds were identified by Mr C Hohler (b4).
Since 1947 finds have been made in the grounds of "Cobblers", 'B' (SU 90849337) the residence of Mr J D Broadbent; these included roofing-tile and glazed floor-tile fragments.
More fragments were found on the surface of the garden adjoining property, "grass-side", 'C' (SU 90859336) the residence of Mr C Winter. Both groups of finds were catalogued by the British Museum and are at present in the possession of their respective finders.
Well digging in the grounds of "Dell Cottage" 'D' (SU 91039334) has yielded further fragments, not yet identified (B2).

No kiln remains have been found in association with the above 'waster' dumps, according to Mr J Broadbent. The material consists solely of flooring and roofing tile, and further scatters found in gardens along the main Penn road as far as Holy Trinity Church (SU 916932) suggest an extensive area of working along this E-W ridge (B3).

This record includes National Record of the Historic Environment Information provided by Historic England on 4 June 2025 licensed under the Open Government Licence.