Wressle Brickyard Cottage is set in close proximity to the farmhouse at Wressle Brickyard Farm but the two are not in the village of Wressle, being about two miles distant. The farmhouse is a conversion of 2 adjoining workers cottages built in the 1850's to house the labourers involved in the production of various clay products, bricks, tiles and pipes for the nearby Wressle Castle Estate (see Wressle in the links section).

The estate owned the village of Wressle and a great deal of the surrounding area, and at various periods, dictated restrictions such as no public house or shops in the village and the exclusion of Methodist preachers and their congregational members from the village, its farms and cottages. The estate was sold off in the 1950's, at prices that today appear ludicrously cheap, with even the church and castle going under the hammer.  

It was after this sale that the two cottages came into the private ownership of a local family. The cottages remained two adjoining but separate households. Later the two houses were bought by a builder who converted them into a single house. The land belonging to house on which the brickyard had once been was added to at the time of the sale and at various times later to form a small farm.

The Barnes Wallis Free House is located at North Howden just two miles away.