Main Brewery Building is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1992. Brewery. 1 related planning application.
Main Brewery Building
- WRENN ID
- dim-buttress-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1992
- Type
- Brewery
- Address
- Main Brewery Building, 21, Watton Road, Ware, SG12 0AB
- OS grid reference
- TL 354 145
- Coordinates
- 51.8134, -0.0358
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a brewery building dated 1862, constructed of yellow stock brick with red brick arches, and partly timber framed with weatherboarding. It features pantile roofs with gabled ends. The building is a tower brewery, rectangular in plan, with a prominent tower at the left (east) end. The tower incorporates an integral water tank within the louvred gable.
The north front has a large three-storey tower with a loading door on the first floor and a two-level segmental arch arcade on the ground floor. The central two-storey range is weatherboarded on its first floor, containing three windows. To the right is a single-storey and attic range with a wide segmental arch opening. The tower has a louvred ventilator on the ridge and a truncated chimney on its rear, southwest corner. An east-facing return displays three windows, and a tablet on the north front at second floor level is inscribed "CH.1862," signifying Caleb Hitch, son of Caleb Hitch Snr., who patented the interlocking brick used extensively in the local area.
Inside the tower, cast iron columns support the floors, and a king-post roof sits above the west range. The brewery was occupied by William Wickham Ltd. in the 1880s.
Local climate
Main Brewery Building sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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