The Old Maltings At Fountain Head Brewery

The Old Maltings at Fountain Head Brewery is a former maltings building, now converted to offices, constructed in 1906 and altered in 1987. It was designed by William Chambers of London for Samuel Webster and Co. The structure is made of coursed dressed sandstone with ashlar dressings and has a Welsh slate roof.

The building is symmetrical along its axis, featuring an 8-bay center that has four storeys and three attic floors. To the east, there is a two-bay tower and a hoist tower, while the west end has a broader and taller three-storey range with three by six bays. The east tower includes a square-headed train entrance that spans three storeys and has a multiple brick-arched soffit. It also features an offset band and a still band beneath a segmentally-headed window with iron bars, along with a small rectangular window beneath the eaves band set on blocks. The tower is topped with a swept hipped roof capped by a slate-hung louvre.

The hoist tower on the right rises seven storeys, with a window on each floor and a hipped roof. The main range has segmentally-arched windows, with those on the ground floor set within a plinth. The first-floor windows are all blocked, and there is an offset band above the third storey, with an eaves band on blocks. Above the eighth bay, there is a cantilevered wooden hoist housing three rows of triangular dormers arranged in a staggered pattern of three, four, and three, with slate-hung houses at each ridge and a central cowl.

The range across the west end features segmentally-arched ground-floor openings, including a wide doorway on the right. Pilasters rise from the first-floor band to divide each bay, which has blocked first-floor windows beneath small rectangular second-floor openings with crossed iron bars. The building is topped with a plain ashlar entablature and blocks at the eaves, with twin hipped roofs sweeping up to slate-hung louvres. This structure is an outstanding example of its type, reflecting the success of the late 19th-century brewery trade in the area. Local authority plans indicate that the building was designed in 1898.