Stables At Ram (Youngs) Brewery Complex

The stables, part of the Ram (Young’s) Brewery Complex, were built in 1896 with minor alterations in the 20th century. They are located on Wandsworth High Street. The building is constructed of stock brick in a Flemish bond pattern, featuring a plat band and simple corbelled eaves, and has a hipped tile roof. The complex comprises a main range with lower flanking wings arranged around a courtyard.

The main range is long with a hipped roof and a central, square-plan cupola on the ridge. Each face of the cupola has a clock, flanked by pilasters, all beneath an ogee-profile roof with an ornate weathervane. The central entrance, originally with stable doors, has altered brickwork and a first-floor loading door. Above the entrance are two three-light windows, and below are four smaller hopper windows, all set within segmental arches. Two chimneys have corbelled caps. Each lower wing has four windows at ground level, a wide door with overlights and a stable door; a double wide stable door is located on the east side. The rear elevation has occasional doors and a first-floor loading door, with a single advanced sanitary bay featuring a 20th-century rebuilt parapet. The outer elevations of the wings feature seven similar high windows. A single-storey range to the rear contains multiple loose boxes, each with a wide stable door, a single light beneath a segmental arch, and a continuous engineering brick plinth.

Inside the wings, a central corridor is flanked by original loose boxes with panelled dividers and cast iron ball-capped newels; the loose boxes in the west wing are taller and have balustrades to the dividers and gates. King post trusses with raking struts are present. The main range has glazed brick dado and part-glazed doors with sidelights and overlights, plus stalls along the south wall and a cobbled sett floor. A first-floor hayloft is also present.

The stables were completed in 1896 to house 31 horses after the earlier brewery stable was demolished. They served the Young's Wandsworth Brewery, which purchased the site in 1831, and remained in operation as a brewery stable in 2004. The building is listed for its largely intact late 19th-century character, retaining its loose boxes and handsome exterior, and for its group value with the Grade II* brewery, the Grade II stables, and the Grade II Brewery Tap.