Former Malthouse And Brewery

HOVE

TQ2506SW DROVE ROAD, Portslade 579-1/9/160 (North side) Former malthouse and brewery

GV II

Former malthouse and brewery, subsequently light industrial. Mid C19. Yellow stock bricks, red brick dressings, timber clad projection, bitumen covered clay tile mansard roof with curved eaves, pyramid roof and cowl to malthouse, brick stack left gable end. Plan: malthouse with adjoining range contain cross gable with projecting bay. 2 storeys plus attic, 1:2 bays, right pyramid roof of malthouse lit on right return by 5-light window, left projecting gable end with 3-light window, fretted ends to timber cladding carried on struts set in concrete corbels, 2 single light windows below, 2 windows set apart to right; ground floor right large segmental-headed fixed light window, left double door, panelled and half-glazed, rectangular fanlight with glazing bars. Left return lit only at ground floor level by 2 small windows.The projection was for dropping the malted barley into carts below. This malthouse is believed to be part of the brewery that predated the large building now known as Le Carbone, South Street (not included).The malt tax was repealed in 1880, possibly stimulating the construction of larger premises.

Listing NGR: TQ2537706423