Northgate Brewery Office Range And Brewhouse

Brewery offices and brewhouse, now disused, in Newark on Trent.

The office range dates to 1890, while the brewhouse was built in 1871 and 1882. The 1882 and 1890 ranges were designed by William Bliss Sanders for Richard Warwick, brewer, of Warwicks & Richardsons Ltd.

The office range is constructed of brick with terracotta and stone dressings, beneath a hipped plain tile roof with two side wall stacks (one panelled) and two party wall stacks, all coped. It is designed in early 18th-century Domestic Revival style. The building is two storeys high, with a 14-window range arranged 3:2:9. It features plinth, sill and impost bands throughout.

The entrance block to the left has a canted wooden oriel window with central fanlight, flanked by single segment-headed 12-pane sashes. Above the oriel is a crest flanked by fluted pilasters. To its right stands a segment-headed triple sash with moulded broken pediment and flanked by pilasters. Below on the left is a round-arched carriageway entrance with keystone and impost bands, fitted with a pair of panelled wooden gates with moulded top centre panels flanked by balusters. To the right is the main entrance, with short flanking pilasters carrying palmette finials and a moulded doorcase with scrolled broken pediment. The doorcase features a central shell and swag flanked by relief moulding of barley sheaves and a date. The door is a panelled two-leaf design with overlight. An oval window with four keystones is positioned above a bronze plate with moulded surround.

The plainer office block to the right has ten segment-headed 12-pane sashes with aprons, and below them eight round-headed wooden cross casements with cast iron fanlights. The returns have two 12-pane sashes. The windows throughout have keystones.

The brewhouse is constructed of red brick with blue brick dressings and gabled and hipped slate roofs, featuring plinth, first-floor and impost bands and dentillated eaves. Windows are predominantly round-headed cast iron glazing bar casements.

The south-west front has an off-centre main gable, three storeys high, with four windows on the upper floors and a central round-headed doorway flanked by single windows. To the right is a two-storey range with three pairs of windows on each floor and a ventilated clerestorey roof. To the left is a two-storey gable with a canted brick oriel window containing plain sashes and below it two round-headed windows. Further left is a three-window range, two storeys with attics, featuring paired windows and above them four gabled dormers. A louvred clerestorey with six-bay hipped roof sits below. An elliptical arched carriage entrance and two paired windows are positioned beneath. To the left again is a projecting gable with a canted brick oriel window and two windows below.

The north-east front contains the 1871 block to the right. This is three storeys tall with an eight-window range, a canted brick oriel to the left, and four gabled dormers above. It has a louvred clerestorey with six-bay hipped roof. To the right is a three-storey stair tower with corrugated iron roof and two windows on each upper floor. The 1882 range to the left has a projecting gabled three-storey main block with four windows on the upper floors, the second-floor centre pair being larger. To its left is a two-storey range with projecting three-window gable, flanked to the left by two windows and to the right by four. A ventilated clerestorey roof caps this section. The ground floor features a 20-bay polychrome Gothic arcade across the whole front, forming a loading bay, flanked to the left by a round-headed doorway and to the right by a similar altered opening. Transverse round arches run beneath the arcade.

The office range interior is well designed with moulded cornices. There is a panelled office enclosure in Classical style with reeded pilasters and a pedimented glazed main door, with a panelled door carrying sidelights to its left. A panelled curved mahogany counter is present. The wooden stair is Renaissance Revival style with turned balusters and square newels topped with obelisk finials. Unusual crenellated radiators in tiled recesses are positioned below the windows. The first-floor boardroom contains an enriched Classical fireplace.

The brewhouse has a brick vaulted ground floor supported on round iron columns, with tiled upper floors on similar columns. The first-floor yeast room has a concrete vault and glazed brick lining. An open well iron and wood stair with stick balusters serves the building. The remainder of the brewing equipment has been removed.