Kiln Warehouse

NEWARK ON TRENT

SK7954SE GREAT NORTH ROAD 619-1/5/152 (East side (off)) 07/08/89 Kiln Warehouse

GV II*

Former maltings, now warehouse. 1857, with late C20 alterations. Built for John Hole, brewer. Mass concrete, rendered externally, with hipped Welsh slate roofs. Plinth, first and second floor bands, moulded eaves. Modified regular fenestration, mainly with segment headed openings. 3 storeys; 18 window range, the river front divided into 6 hipped bays. Fourth bay has a central door on each floor, the top one extending into the roof as a gabled dormer. In front of them, a steel hoist gantry. Third bay has on the first floor two inserted segment headed 3-light casements, and below, a door to left. Second bay has a door to right on ground and first floors. Rear has a recessed centre with 6 windows and at either end a double door. Above, a gabled wooden hoist canopy with 3 windows to left and 4 to right. On the ground floor, 8 windows flanked at either end by a door, the left one with round head and keystone. Projecting kilns, at either end, have separate hipped roofs with ventilators. Blank first floors with 5 windows above and 4 round headed windows below. South end has kiln to left with blank first floor and 4 windows above and below, the lower left one blocked. North end has similar fenestration. Interior has wooden floors carried on iron columns, and wooden staircases. Kilns have furnace spaces below and perforated tile floors above. This building is an early example of mass concrete construction.

Listing NGR: SK7975554359