Brewery Building is a Grade II listed building in the Watford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 January 1983. Brewery building. 3 related planning applications.

Brewery Building

WRENN ID
night-quoin-sage
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Watford
Constituency
Watford MP: Matt Turmaine (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 January 1983
Type
Brewery building
Address
Brewery Building, 198, High Street, WD17 2FF
OS grid reference
TQ 114 960
Coordinates
51.65178, -0.39087
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Brewery Building, located at No. 198 High Street, is likely an early 19th-century structure made of red brick and consists of two stories. It features a hipped plain tile roof and an octagonal ventilating turret with a vane. The short end facing the street may also date from the 19th century and includes one window range along with a brick band. This building has group value with Nos 202-202A High Street.

Local climate

Brewery Building sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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