Wincanton Transport Depot

Wincanton Transport Depot is a brewery, now a transport depot, built in 1878 for Howard Horsell and originally named Beaufort Brewery. The building features brick construction with stone sills and heads, and has 20th-century tiled roofs. The central block is three stories high with one bay, and it has an attached three-story block at right angles to the rear. There are single-storey buildings towards the road and another at the rear. The main block has brick pilasters on the upper floors adorned with acanthus leaf heads and oversailing verges. It also includes a brick flue with stone banding, which is iron bound at the top. The rear block has paired windows with chamfered stone lintels and sills, and its roof is half hipped to the rear. The single-storey ranges include a two-storey end adjacent to the road, which is not of special interest. The windows are primarily 4-pane sashes, some of which have been replaced. Inside, the floors are supported by heavy iron beams and columns. Horsell also conducted a School of Scientific Brewing on the site.