Brickworks in area from 1897 to second World War.

A linear feature appearing as a back-filled ditch on early vertical photography (RAF).

Mid C19 weatherboarded mill building, with mill pond to west.

The location of this workhouse is recorded on the 1st Edition 1:2500 map (1874-1887), as the 'Whitmore Place', today as 'Whitmore House'. A Parliamentary Report of 1777 records a parish workhouse in Dedham for up to 48 inmates. The parish workhouse operated between 1725 and 1835 in a converted L-shaped building on Crown Street, now Whitmore House and/or Weavers Shed House (LB). An adjacent house is though to have been the workhouse master's house, now Sceoppa House. In 1775, the master received one shilling per week to feed and clothe each inmate. An inventory taken the same year included a workroom containing 20 spinning-wheels and four looms. Presumably, the residents would have been transferred to Lexden, Colchester, following the introduction of the 1834 Poor Act and the construction of the Lexden and Winstree Union Workhouse in 1836 (MCC4544).

In 1843-8 C.G. Round built the new Birch Hall, south-west of the old Hall (and to the south of St Mary's Church), to designs by Thomas Hopper. There was, however, a manor recorded in the 11th century, presumably in a similar location. Round's Hall was demolished in 1954, except for a three-bayed, two-storeyed brick wing.

Independent Chapel fronting the north side of Layer Breton Heath, with manse and two small burial grounds to the east; only the easternmost burial ground survives today (the other has been built over with dwellings). Opened in 1798, demolished mid 1920s.