Old Brewery

The Old Brewery, built in 1885 for Archibald Beckett, is partly converted to offices. It is constructed of Chilmark stone, with some ashlar facing, and red brick dressings, with clay Bridgwater tile and slate roofs, including crested ridge tiles.

The brewery has a quadrangular plan, featuring a former brewhouse tower on the north-east corner and a water tower allowing a carriageway to pass through the north-west corner. A fermentation hall is located in the west range, with a later addition to the south range and a lower range along the north front.

The north front is asymmetrical, with seven windows. The brewhouse tower on the left has a truncated pyramidal slate roof with louvred dormers and a moulded brick modillion cornice. The top stage of the tower and the second storey of the centre range are built of red brick. Double and triple-light windows have cambered arches and horizontal glazing bars. A squat tower to the right features a brick elliptical carriageway arch with panels above inscribed "Proprietor Archibald Beckett", "Rebuilt 1885" and "Wiltshire Brewery." Moulded brick stringcourses and small, cambered-arch, 2 and 3-light windows are also present. Similar windows are found in the gable end of the west range on the right, and on the west side. Dormers with cambered heads are on the west side of the building, and on the rear (south) gable end are a pair of segmental-headed cast-iron windows with lozenge-shaped panes, with the central panes pivoting to open, accompanied by small louvred openings above. Similar windows are in the south gable of the east range. A lower slate roof range is located on the south side, between the east and west wings.

Inside the courtyard, the elevations display small segmental-headed windows, sometimes grouped in pairs or triples, a large elliptical arch opening on the east range, and corrugated-iron clad hoist housings and canopy on the west and north ranges.

Internally, the building retains C19 king-post roof trusses. The first floor has been removed from the west range (fermentation hall), with modern brewing equipment installed; the brewhouse is now located in the south end of the west range. The north and east ranges have been converted to offices.