North Side Yard

This is a group of brewery buildings dating to 1870, and subsequently altered. They are constructed of yellow brick in Flemish bond, with some stucco and a slate roof where visible. The complex includes a yard accessed through an entrance flanked by a Brewers’ House to the west and a building to the east. The Brewers’ House has three and four storeys, with a single-window range facing Chiswell Street and a four-window range facing the yard. The building to the east mirrors this design, having a single-window range to Chiswell Street. The rear buildings, which enclose the yard on three sides, are three storeys high, with a ten-window range to the west, a three-window range to the north, and a thirteen-window range to the east.

The Brewers’ House entrance on Chiswell Street is elliptical, with a gauged brick head and fanlight. A bold dentil cornice runs along a single-bay screen wall to the yard. The first-floor window is round-arched, while the second and third floors have flat-arched windows, all with gauged brick heads. Moulded stucco bands are present between the first and second floors, and above the second and third floors, topped by a parapet. The return side to the yard features small segmental-arched windows on the ground floor, and flat-arched windows above, also with gauged brick heads. The answering facade features a blank ground floor, projecting blocks, and a heavy dentil cornice mirroring that on the Brewers' House.

The yard buildings have flat-arched warehouse openings with late 20th-century glazing on the ground and first floors, with the exception of seven segmental arches on the south end of the east side, and on the first floor to the west and north sides. A 1774 stone sundial, originally from a previous building on the site, is set into the first floor of the north side. The third-floor windows are segmental-arched on all three sides. The east and west sides have a parapet, while the north side features a gable to the western bay, a parapet to the remainder, and a behind mansard roof, with a gabled four-storey cross-wing at the north-east corner.