The Old Vinegar Works

WORCESTER

SO8555SW ST MARTIN'S STREET, LOWESMOOR 620-1/13/586 The Old Vinegar Works 08/03/74 (Formerly Listed as: LOWESMOOR (South side) The Old Vinegar Factory)

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Also known as: The Old Vinegar Factory PHEASANT STREET. Warehouse. c1870 with later additions and alterations. Pinkish-red brick with gault brick dressings, ashlar cornice and capitals and slate and glass roof. Rectangular on plan. Single tall storey, 13 x 11 window-bays. From first-stage band are gault brick pilasters with ashlar caps, stepped frieze and modillion cornice, low coped parapet. End bays have blind openings, otherwise 20-pane segmental-arched windows in metal frames, with voussoir arch of alternate red and gault brick. Lower stage obscured to long side by temporary structures. Returns have pedimented gables and similar treatment, with red brick pilasters to lower stage and similar windows, with centrel plank doors; 5-stepped-light, round-arched windows with gault brick surrounds in tympanum. Apex of roof is glazed. INTERIOR: roof has two levels of metal collars and x-braces. HISTORICAL NOTE: This building formed part of the Hill Evans Vinegar Works 1830-c1960). It would have contained large wooden vats for storage of vinegar. "The filling and dispatching room is an enormous hall...it is one of the largest single rooms in the kingdom....the great vats...are probably the most conspicuous and impressive parts of the equipment. One of these vats, standing among many of only slightly smaller size is 100 feet in circumference and 32 feet high having a capacity of 114,821 gallons."- 'Worcester Daily Times', 1903. (Worcester Daily Times: Not known: Worcester at Work: Worcester: 1903-: 5).