Castle Brewery

Castle Brewery is a disused and partially demolished brewery located in Newark on Trent, built between 1885 and 1890 by William Bradford for the brewers Caparn & Hankey. The building is constructed of brick with a steel and cast iron internal structure, featuring moulded brick dressings and a hipped and gabled plain tile roof in an enriched Italianate style.

The main tower stands five storeys tall and has a pyramidal roof with two gabled dormers, topped with a wooden lantern that also has a pyramidal roof. On the first floor, there is a square oriel window with two plain sashes, accompanied to its right by two iron glazing bar casements, all with segment heads. Above this, there are similar segment-headed casements and round-headed casements, all set within two-storey round-headed recesses. The attic storey features six segment-headed louvred openings. The round-headed main doorway, located beneath the oriel window, has a six-panel double door and a blank fanlight, with two round-headed iron casements to its right.

To the left of the main tower is a lower three-storey tower with a projecting central bay that contains three windows and three blanks, with segment-headed and round-headed casements set in round-headed arches above. The ground floor has a blocked opening and a carriage entrance to the right. This tower also has a pyramidal roof and lean-to roofs on the lower flanking bays.

Behind the towers is a hipped four-storey cross wing that features two gabled dormers on each side. The left side of this wing has an off-centre wooden hoist tower on brackets and segment-headed windows. A three-storey range at the rear has seven windows with glazing bar iron casements; the second-floor windows are smaller, and the ground floor features cross casements, all with segment heads. The interior lacks intermediate floors or fittings, showcasing wooden trussed roofs with iron bracing and a cast iron cantilever stair in the main tower.