Tolly Cobbold Brewery

Tolly Cobbold Brewery is a tower brewery built in 1896 by William Bradford. The structure is made of English bond red brick and features hipped slate roofs with crested ridge tiles and moulded brick eaves brackets. It has an L-plan layout. All elevations are adorned with segmental arches over cast-iron windows, which include middle-hung casements.

The brewery consists of a 5-storey and attic block on the north-east side, with 2 (east) by 6 bay north elevations. This block has three semicircular arched windows on the fourth floor, gabled dormers, and a hipped-roofed lantern that leads to a viewing platform at the rear. It is connected to a 2-storey, 2-window range, which is topped by a panelled cast-iron water tank. This range features a reset early 17th-century studded door set in a Tudor-arched architrave, with overlights flanked by fluted pilasters that support primitive caryatids and a dentilled flat hood.

To the north-west, there is a 4-storey and attic block with 2 (north) by 3-bay (west) elevations, and a 5-bay block to the south-west that is articulated by raised pilasters. This block is topped with a louvred lantern to the north-west and a glazed lantern to the south-west.

Inside, most fermentation tanks and tuns were replaced in the 20th century. The fermentation rooms feature wrought-iron roof trusses, and one room (to the south-west) contains a reset copper brewing vessel from 1746. There is also a post and pad roof in the granary and a small steam engine made by E.R. and F. Turner.