Crown Brewery Warehouse And Brewery Range

The Crown Brewery warehouse and brewery range, dating to approximately 1888, was built for Hartleys Brewery Company. It is constructed of red brick with a black brick plinth, with a rear section featuring Welsh slate cladding and weatherboarding. The building stands on the west side of a courtyard, near earlier brewery buildings and a former brewery-master’s house and inn.

The east side of the main range is three storeys and has a basement, and is divided into four bays arranged in two sections of two bays each. To the left is a single-storey, single-bay section, and to the right, a single-storey, two-bay section. The section to the right projects forward, and there is an outshut to the front left with folding wagon doors. A basement access door is located to the left, with basement windows set beneath cambered arches. The upper floors have 20-pane casements with keyed segmental arches. Moulded brick string courses run along the first and second floors. The section to the left has a first-floor canted bay with 12-pane and 2-pane sashes, a cornice, and a flat roof. The second floor has margin-bar casements beneath segmental arches. The building features a deep corbelled brick eaves cornice and a hipped roof that rises to a large louvred section with its own hipped roof, gablets, ornate finials, and exposed rafter-ends. The section to the right has a projecting, enclosed lucam (a dormer window) to the second floor, supported on corbelled timber brackets, with windows to the front, circular openings above, and an upper gabled section integrated into the main hipped roof. The rear section has a hipped roof. Throughout the building, there are cresting ridge tiles and curled gable finials. The lower section to the left has a hipped roof and a large central louvre with its own hipped roof and gablets, and a square chimney rises from the south-west corner to the building’s full height. This chimney includes iron angle straps, brick bands, a corbelled head, and a domed lead cap. The section to the right has a basement window, a 20-pane casement beneath a keyed cambered arch, and an open dentilled brick pediment to the gable, with a blind keyed oculus in the tympanum. A 20th-century garage of no significant architectural interest adjoins the building on the right.

Hartleys Brewery Company was incorporated in 1888, following the operation of a brewery at Cowick in 1867. Most of the brewery equipment was removed from the interior after brewing ceased around 1959.