Heritage Brewery

1. 5369 SK 22 SW SP/752

ANGLESEY ROAD (East Side) Heritage Brewery

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2. Brewery. Late C19. Red brick with some stone dressings; tile roof. North-west elevation: tower to left of centre; copper house to left; fermenting house and cask floor to right. Brewhouse tower: 4 + 1 storeys; 4 bays defined by pilasters with round-headed arches. First floor hoist in second bay from left. Segmental -headed casements on lower floors; louvered openings (2 to right blocked) under the round-headed arches on third floor. Moulded dentilled eaves course. Hipped roof rises to tank loft with glazing bar casements and pyramidal roof. Copper house: Originally one tall storey. 3 bays defined by pilasters with stone imposts and round arches, altered and partly blocked. Moulded dentilled eaves marks former roof line; added storey above. Octagonal brick chimney with stepped cap. Fermenting house: Long range extending to right. 7 sets of square headed first-floor casements comprising a small rectangular window flanked by taller lights. 2 sets at right end partly blocked. On ground floor, paired segmental headed casements flank door to left. Altered fenestration to right with door to loading platform and former cask-washing area. C20 extension to rear of fermenting house and C20 boiler house attached to copper house are not of special architectural interest. Former hop store attached to rear of tower by a bridge now used as compressor house on ground floor. Interior: Cold liquor tank in loft; hot liquor tanks and grist hoppers on third floor feed the mash tubs on the second floor. Mash Tun No 1 was built by Briggs of Burton, 1952; No. 2 by R Morton & Co. Ltd ., 1936. Malt house and grinding rooms on first floor; malt mill on ground floor. Copper house contains 3 coppers by Worssam & Son, London; fermenting equipment mainly by R Morton. Former cask store in cellar has brick vaults on cast iron columns. This was Everard's Brewery prior to its assimilation into the Brewing Museum. It is a complete example of a small late C19 town brewery retaining its traditional internal planning, fixtures and fittings. J. Cooksey: Brewery Buildings in Burton on Trent, p. 31-2, London: Victorian Society, 1984.

Listing NGR: SK2406622663