Old Brewery Building

PAIGNTON

SX8860 PRINCES STREET 1947-1/5/77 (West side) 10/01/75 Old Brewery Building (Formerly Listed as: PRINCES STREET Brewery Buildings)

GV II

Brewery building now in use as shop. c1860s. MATERIALS: Local red breccia rubble; slate roofs with lead rolls and crested ridge tiles; roof of malthouse with tall louvred ventilator. PLAN: Long rectangular block built stepping down the hill from left to right. First-floor entrance (possibly C20) at left end. Malthouse at right end. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4:2 window front (2 windows to the malthouse). Rectangular block with hipped roof has 4 ground-floor windows with painted segmental heads, elongating from left to right and glazed with casements with glazing bars. Rendered eaves band. 4 first-floor windows with rendered, moulded brackets to right and left of each lintel with simple aprons below with plain recangular panels. On the ground floor the bays of the malthouse are divided by 3 red sandstone pilasters, the capitals carved with barrels, below a fascia and cornice. The bays have been infilled with shop windows and doors, probably dating from 1982, when the building was renovated by the Devon Historic Buildings Trust. The first floor has 2 recessed casement windows with glazing bars under simple stuccoed hoods imitating a pediment and consoles. Louvred sections below eaves; ventilator pot with lead tent roof and weathervane. The right return of the malthouse is blind, with rougher masonry with local grey limestone inclusions. Rear elevation of main block rendered. INTERIOR: Not inspected. HISTORY: Previously occupied by the brewery Starkey, Knight and Ford.

Listing NGR: SX8857860875