Offices And Brewhouse Of Former Allsopps New Brewery At Ind Coope Burton Brewery

Offices and model brewery built 1859–60 by Hunt & Stephenson of Westminster for Samuel Allsopp & Sons. Red brick with stone dressings and Welsh slate roof largely hidden behind parapets.

The offices face Station Street with a long brewhouse range extending to the rear, flanking the railway. The offices were originally single storey on a basement, with another storey added later in matching style. The central section projects slightly and contains three windows, flanked by one-window bays; the outer bays each have similar large pane sashes with narrower lights beside them. Steps lead up to central panelled double doors with a plain fanlight, set in a moulded stone doorcase with a flat hood on console brackets. This forms part of a floor band incorporating a brick dentil course. The round-headed windows feature blue brick arches with stone keyblocks, the blue brick continuing as an impost band and matching sill band. Rusticated brick quoins mark the angles. A moulded stone modillion eaves cornice with dentils sits below a stone parapet. One chimney stack with a moulded stone cap stands to the left of the central bay. Attached railings with brick corner piers enclose the forecourt area. The left and right return elevations follow a similar style and materials, with 7 and 5 windows respectively.

The brewery building extends from the rear. Its right return elevation matches the offices in style and materials. It rises three storeys with a long 29-window range. The central section contains 7 windows, flanked by recessed 5-window ranges and slightly projecting 6-window outer wings. Ground-floor windows have cambered blue brick heads with stone keyblocks. First and second floor iron casements feature round blue brick arches continuing as impost bands. Perforated ventilators sit above and below each window on the first floor. A prominent second-floor band is followed by a brick dentilled eaves course below a concealed stone gutter and parapet. A twentieth-century staircase occupies the right end; some openings are blocked or altered. The northern elevation is similar in treatment, though largely concealed at ground floor by a long twentieth-century single-storey addition.

Allsopp's New Brewery was built at a cost of £27,000. In 1887, Alfred Barnard described these buildings as "fine specimens of brick constructed edifices; are of handsome elevation, and have a greater capacity than those of any other single brewery in England."