Disused Brewery Immediately South West Of Number 23 (Not Included)

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TL3514SE NEW ROAD 829-1/9/150 (West side) 24/02/92 Disused Brewery immediately south-west of No.23 (not included)

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Brewery. c1870. White brick with red brick arches and weatherboarded timber frame. Pantile roofs with gabled ends. Brick corner stack. Rectangular plan with entrance on north end enclosed in C20 outshut. 3 storeys. East elevation has 4 windows to ground and first floors with cambered red brick arches; second floor boarded timber frame, the right with 3 louvred panels, the left higher eaves, 2 windows and louvred ventilator on roof ridge. North gable end mostly weatherboarded and with second floor doorway on left and C20 single storey outshut. South gable end is entirely of brick with no openings; brickwork returns on left to west elevation which has weatherboarded second floor on left. INTERIOR: ground floor was a store for raw materials. First floor has large galvanised iron tank fed by pipe and tap. On second floor a brick kiln in the south west corner, measuring about 6' x 5'. Note: this is a one-man operated brewery run by Henry Barker, who also ran a small alehouse at No.23 New Road (not included), with his son Silas Barker. Small-scale breweries of this date are now increasingly rare.

Listing NGR: TL3593214344