Stables Immediately To East Of 3 And 5 King Street

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MAIDENHEAD KING STREET Nos.3 AND 5 (Odd) Stables immediately to east of 3 and 5 King Street

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Multi-storey brewery stables. Circa 1870. Red brick. Slate roof with gabled ends. L-shaped on plan around a small courtyard; with stables and tack room on the first floor approached by external stairs on the west side to a covered landing in the angle and with a hay loft on the second floor. 3 storeys. The south gable end has an RSJ over later doorways and a hayloft doorway in the gable with a plank divided door and hoist above. The west side of the main east range has cambered arch openings on the ground floor with inserted piers and two segmentally-headed multi-pane iron windows above on the first floor and projecting bay on left clad in corrugated sheets and with 3 small 12-pane windows [the bay is supported on ornate cast-iron brackets now inside a later lean-to below]; second floor blind. On the right [west] side of the small courtyard a shallow flight of stairs with solid brick balustrades leads to a covered open-fronted landing with timber posts and a slate roof These are the stables to Nicholsons Brewery, founded in 1820 by Robert Nicholson. In 1965 the brewery on this site was demolished except for the stables.

Listing NGR: SU8867081141