Brewery, Malt Kiln And Adjoining Ranges Approximately 10 Metres South Of No 2 (Wells House)

This is a late 18th and early 19th century brewery, along with a malt kiln and associated buildings, approximately 10 metres south of Wells House. Later additions were made around 1888 for Hartley's Brewery Company Ltd. The buildings are constructed of yellow brick with Welsh slate roofs, and red brick with Welsh slate to the malt kiln and a southern range, with pantile roofs to the remainder. The complex sits on an L-shaped plan, forming the south and east sides of a courtyard.

The southern range includes a stable/cart-shed/granary, a malt kiln, and store rooms. The stable/cart-shed/granary is a two-story structure with three first-floor openings. The cart-shed section has three openings, supported by a pair of cast-iron columns and a timber lintel, with a boarded front and a door to the right. Stable doors and slatted wooden ventilator grilles are to the left. The first floor has a door and two hatches with sandstone sills. A dentilled brick eaves cornice is present. The malt kiln, set back to the left, is a low, two-story building with a single, part-glazed hatch on the first floor and a hipped roof with a central cowl. A single-story range to the left has a blocked opening, a projecting outshut, and a hipped roof.

The late 18th and early 19th century brewery range, which faces the courtyard on the west side, includes a low, two-story, single-bay section and a taller, two-story, single-bay section. The ground floor includes a tall, blocked, segmental-arched opening to the right, a lower, rebuilt segmental-arched entrance to the left, and a four-pane sash window on the first floor, with a large lateral stack to the right. A gabled ventilator is on the roof of the taller section. The single-story east range has corbelled eaves and a hipped roof on the left side.

In 1838, James Latham operated as a brewer and maltster at West Cowick. Some sections of the buildings were disused and in a state of decay at the time of the last survey. Modern additions in the inner angle of the courtyard are not of special interest.