Old Brewery House and Attached Gateway, Walls, Piers and Railings is a Grade II* listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 January 1949. House. 1 related planning application.
Old Brewery House and Attached Gateway, Walls, Piers and Railings
- WRENN ID
- rooted-foundation-hazel
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 January 1949
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Brewery House and Attached Gateway, Walls, Piers and Railings, Market Cross, Malmesbury, SN16 9AS
- OS grid reference
- ST 933 872
- Coordinates
- 51.58443, -2.0974
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Brewery House is a house that dates back to 1672, with an additional section added in the early 18th century and the east end refaced in the late 18th century. The building is constructed of roughcast with quoins made from coursed limestone rubble, brick ridge and right-hand gable stacks, and features a stone slate roof.
The house has a double-depth plan and stands two storeys high, with a window arrangement of 2:3:3. The right-hand section has a parapeted facade, featuring a left-hand doorway with a moulded surround and carved brackets supporting a hood, leading to a six-panel door with the top two panels glazed. The windows have moulded surrounds and consist of 6/9-pane sashes with fine bars, extending low on the ground floor. The right-hand gable, made of rubble, displays a date stone in the stack inscribed with MAY/1672/S/T/A, which may indicate a marriage date, along with a small low casement and a 6/6-pane sash on the first floor.
The west addition is set back slightly and has a party wall stack. It features a left-of-centre doorway with a bracketed stone canopy and a six-panel door. The windows here have ashlar surrounds, with 6/9-pane sashes, and the right-hand first-floor pair is lower, consisting of 10/10-pane casements with small cornices, alongside a small right-hand ground-floor window. The left gable has a 4/8-pane attic sash, and there is a rear outshut. A brick range from the early 19th century with a slate roof is located at the rear. Between the two fronts, there is a lead hopper and downpipe from the 18th century.
Inside, the house features a winder stair leading down to a right-hand end segmental-vaulted cellar with a flagged floor. The front right-hand room is adorned with panelling, a boxed-out cornice, and an original carved fireplace with a basket grate.
The property also includes an attached gateway with a wrought-iron overthrow arch and lantern situated between the main house and a gate with rusticated ashlar piers and spear-headed iron gates and railings at the street entrance. An L-shaped wall extends from the northeast corner to enclose the garden to the east. Historically, the building was known as the Hop or Pumphouse in the late 18th century.
Local climate
Old Brewery House and Attached Gateway, Walls, Piers and Railings receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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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