Old Brewery Barrel House is a Grade II listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1995. Brewery.
Old Brewery Barrel House
- WRENN ID
- dusted-mortar-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1995
- Type
- Brewery
- Address
- Old Brewery Barrel House, Broad Street, Ely
- OS grid reference
- TL 544 800
- Coordinates
- 52.39637, 0.26895
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Brewery Barrel House is a former brewery building dated 1879. It is constructed of gault brick with red brick dressings and features a Welsh slate roof. The building is single storey with a basement and has a four-window range of cast-iron windows set under cambered arches. There are two pairs of double doors and a central round arched doorway, which has a keystone inscribed with "E.W.H. 1879." The basement windows are equipped with cast-iron grilles, and there is a pair of double doors at the left end. The rear of the building features a series of small basement windows and additional windows just below the eaves, both with lattice grilles. Inside, the basement contains a double row of cast-iron columns that support iron transverse beams and shallow brick vaults in header bond, along with a central sunk pathway for barrels.
Local climate
Old Brewery Barrel House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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