Wadworths Brewery

1. 1042 NEW PARK STREET (North East Side)

Wadworth's Brewery SU 0061 2/290

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1. 1. A large deep red brick brewery on corner site with Northgate Street qv. 6 storeys with gabled centre and lower 4 storey gabled section to right. 2 storeyed gabled extension of front to right hand. The corner is curved and there are 3 and 2 storey extensions for 9 bays along Northgate Street. Gables are low pitched with cut brick copings giving bargeboard effect. Bull's eye window in centre gable, trefoil light to gable of 4 storey right hand section and a bull's eye again in the gable of the 2 storey extension. Sill courses to each floor. Recessed iron frame pivot casements, cambered brick arches. The main entrance reaches up to 2nd floor level occupying the width of the central gabled section. Rusticated raised brick surround to elliptical archway with keystone. The corner block with Northgate Street has a hipped slate roof with raised platform, ornate cast iron balustrade, weathervanes at corner. A very tall square brick chimney rises from yard above roof line with cornice head and triglyph frieze. Dominating position closing perspective from the Market Place.

Listing NGR: SU0021061672