Chesters Salford Brewery

Chesters Salford Brewery, dated 1896, was designed by WA Deighton for Threlfall's Brewery Company Ltd. It is an impressive example of its type and a notable local landmark. The brewery is constructed of pressed red brick with ashlar dressings and Welsh slate roofs, arranged in a T-shaped plan with a prominent tower at the junction of several wings.

The copper room and offices, located to the southeast of the tower, are two storeys high with five bays to the east and three bays to the south. Segmentally arched windows and arched entrances mark the ground floor, while the first floor features round-arched windows with brick and stone voussoirs and hoodmoulds. A string course and slotted brick parapet adorn the upper levels. The office block, bays 6 to 8, has large two-light windows and a similar parapet. The projecting entrance bay leads to a three-story tower with corner piers, a cornice on a corbel table, and a brick arcade linking transverse stacks. The tower itself is five stories high, with differing window styles on each floor, a frieze displaying the company name and "Cook Street Brewery", and a hipped roof with lunettes in dormers and decorative finials.

The boiler house, situated at the northwest end of Cook Street, is one story high and is characterized by square-headed openings between corniced piers and twinned lunettes beneath the eaves cornice. A linking building retains decorative round arches to windows on the ground floor. The maturing house, in a wing to the northeast of the tower, is three stories high with a gabled section over bays 1 to 3, which incorporate a 20th century lift hoist. Segmentally arched windows are found on the ground and first floors, while the second floor features round-arched windows. An impost string course, hoodmoulds, keystones, a cornice, and a frieze displaying the date "AD 1896" and company name are also present.

The interior retains its original layout and some important fittings, including iron and brass balustrading to galleries in the maturing house and copper room, and decorative spiral staircases (altered) in the maturing house and to the upper floors of the tower. The copper room features basket-arched iron roof trusses. A wooden hoist-shaft is located against the northwestern side of the tower, and a square chimney with arcaded panels and a short second stage is found adjoining the eastern corner.