Heritage Brewery

The Heritage Brewery is a late 19th-century brewery constructed of red brick with stone dressings and a tile roof. The north-west elevation features a prominent tower to the left of centre, a copper house to its left, and a fermenting house and cask floor to the right.

The four-bay brewhouse tower rises four-and-a-half storeys and is characterised by pilasters with round-headed arches. A hoist is located on the first floor, and segmental-headed casements appear on the lower floors. There are louvered openings under the arches on the third floor, with two blocked. A moulded dentil eaves course runs along the top, and a hipped roof rises to a tank loft featuring glazing bar casements and a pyramidal roof. The copper house originally comprised one tall storey, with three bays defined by pilasters, stone imposts, and round arches, though it has been altered and partially blocked. A moulded dentil eaves line indicates the former roof line. An added storey sits above the original. An octagonal brick chimney is topped with a stepped cap. The fermenting house is a long range extending to the right, with sets of square-headed first-floor casements; two sets on the right end are partly blocked. The ground floor features paired segmental-headed casements flanking a door to the left, while alterations to the right include a door to a loading platform and a former cask-washing area. A 20th-century extension to the rear of the fermenting house and a 20th-century boiler house attached to the copper house are not of special architectural interest. A former hop store, attached to the rear of the tower by a bridge, now serves as a compressor house on the ground floor.

The interior retains much of its original character, including a cold liquor tank in the loft, hot liquor tanks and grist hoppers on the third floor which feed the mash tubs on the second floor. Mash Tun No. 1 was built by Briggs of Burton in 1952, while No. 2 was constructed by R Morton & Co. Ltd. in 1936. A malt house and grinding rooms occupy the first floor, with a malt mill located on the ground floor. The copper house houses three coppers by Worssam & Son, London, and the fermenting equipment is primarily by R Morton. The former cask store in the cellar has brick vaults supported by cast iron columns. The brewery was formerly owned by Everard's Brewery prior to being assimilated into the Brewing Museum, and it represents a complete example of a small late 19th-century town brewery, retaining its traditional internal planning, fixtures, and fittings.