Star Brewery Gallery

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TQ 4110 SW & TQ 4110 SE 9/92 & 10/92

LEWES CASTLE DITCH LANE Star Brewery Gallery

(Formerly listed as FISHER STREET (west side) Beard's Brewery)

15.6.84

GV II

Brewery, now store. Later C18, altered in C19. Some rubble stone and some flint with brick dressings, but mostly brick, nearly all now painted. Plain tiled half-hipped roof.

Right half: Three gabled dormers, almost regularly spaced across roof. Two storeys with cellar and attic. Irregular fenestration with two windows on first floor to right and three windows on ground floor to left. Tall doorway to left reaching to eaves with boarded door and transom-light.

Left half: Painted brick with red brick to cross-wing above eaves level of main range to right. Plain tiled roofs with taller cross-gabled block to right and a weather-boarded louvred housing on ridge. Two small stacks to left. Two storeys with garret under gable to right, with large window in garret above. Irregular fenestration of two windows to left on first floor and one on ground floor. One doorway to left and one to right of centre.

Interior: Very large vaulted cellar to north. South part contains much brewery machinery of indeterminate date, including fermentation vats, malting vat and direct line-shafting for steam engine (at time of re-survey removed).

Listing NGR: TQ4149610185