Greene King Main Brewhouse Brewery Yard

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8563NE WESTGATE STREET 639-1/11/686 (North side) Greene King Main Brewhouse: Brewery Yard

GV II

Brewhouse: the main brewhouse of the Greene King complex. Opened January 1939. In red brick with stone dressings; flat roof with parapet. Art Deco style. EXTERIOR: 6 storeys. Banded brick rustication to the ground storey topped by a heavy stone band. 4 rectangular windows in deep reveals to the ground storey. The upper front has a range of 5 windows rising the whole height of the building, arranged 1: 3: 1 with the centre breaking forward slightly: the 2 outer narrow and rectangular, in plain reveals, the 3 central semicircular headed, set into double-arched reveals. Small-paned cast-iron louvred window frames throughout. The main block of the building rises one storey higher than the front with a row of rectangular windows in shallow reveals. The double 6-panelled central entrance doors, up steps, are recessed in a heavy rectangular stone doorcase. INTERIOR: retains most of the original brewing machinery. On the upper storeys heavy supporting ironwork by Robert Boby & Sons of Bury St Edmunds. One of the very few brewhouses built during the interwar period and an impressive design. (Wilson RG: Greene King: A Business and Family History: Bury St Edmunds: 1983-: 196-198).

Listing NGR: TL8563463786