The Cannon Brewery Building is a Grade II listed building in the Islington local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 October 1990. A Industrial Brewery. 1 related planning application.
The Cannon Brewery Building
- WRENN ID
- former-chamber-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Islington
- Constituency
- Islington South and Finsbury MP: Emily Thornberry (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 October 1990
- Type
- Brewery
- Period
- Industrial
- Address
- The Cannon Brewery Building, 156-162, St John Street, EC1V 4QJ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 317 822
- Coordinates
- 51.52373, -0.10244
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cannon Brewery building is a brewery structure built in 1893 by Bradford and Sons. It features a combination of granite, sandstone, and red brick set in Flemish bond, with a roof that is obscured by a parapet. The building stands three storeys over a basement and has a four-window range.
At the base, there is a battered granite plinth and rusticated brickwork on the ground floor. The ground floor includes an elliptical-arched carriage entrance with a gauged brick head, where the brickwork is arranged in the form of voussoirs, and a rounded granite moulding on the intrados. The entrance is flanked by panelled and elaborately ornamented wooden gates. To the left of the entrance are three segmental-arched windows with gauged brick heads and keystones, with one window on the left and two on the right.
On the first and second floors, the windows are grouped in vertical pairs within recessed panels that are topped by an elliptical arch made of gauged brick. These windows are flat-arched and feature sandstone sill bands and lintel bands, divided by sandstone mullions. Decorative panels, likely made of terracotta, are located between the first and second floors. The building is capped with a brick modillion cornice and a parapet that has a raised central panel inscribed with 'CANNON BREWERY'.
Local climate
The Cannon Brewery Building sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% 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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