Wadworths Brewery is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. Brewery.

Wadworths Brewery

WRENN ID
sombre-corbel-pigeon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
Country
England
Type
Brewery
Address
Wadworths Brewery, New Park Street, Devizes
OS grid reference
SU 002 616
Coordinates
51.35412, -1.99836
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Wadworth's Brewery is a large deep red brick brewery built in 1885, located on the corner of New Park Street and Northgate Street. The building stands six storeys tall, featuring a gabled centre and a lower four-storey gabled section to the right. There is also a two-storey gabled extension at the front on the right side. The corner of the building is curved, and it has three and two-storey extensions along Northgate Street, spanning nine bays in total. The gables have a low pitch with cut brick copings that create a bargeboard effect.

Notable features include a bull's eye window in the centre gable, a trefoil light in the gable of the four-storey right-hand section, and another bull's eye in the gable of the two-storey extension. Each floor has sill courses, and the windows are fitted with recessed iron frame pivot casements and cambered brick arches. The main entrance, which extends up to the second floor, occupies the width of the central gabled section and has a rusticated raised brick surround with an elliptical archway and keystone.

The corner block facing Northgate Street has a hipped slate roof with a raised platform, ornate cast iron balustrade, and weathervanes at the corner. A very tall square brick chimney rises from the yard above the roofline, featuring a cornice head and triglyph frieze. The brewery occupies a dominant position, closing the perspective from the Market Place.

Local climate

Wadworths Brewery receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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