Brewery House Old Brewery House

This is a late 18th-century brewery house, largely rebuilt in the mid-19th century, and later altered in the 20th century. It is located on the north side of Castle Street in Buckingham. The building is a street range of two houses, now used as offices, arranged in an L-shape.

The front range is three storeys high and has three windows. The central door has six panels, an overlight, and a moulded wooden surround, set within a stucco surround with panelled pilasters, a panelled frieze, and a moulded cornice. Plate-glass sash windows are present on all floors, and the ground floor is characterised by channelled rustication, while the window surrounds and quoins have vermiculated rustication. The quoins are also rusticated on the first and second floors. The first-floor windows have moulded surrounds with paired console brackets supporting moulded sills, topped by console brackets supporting pediments featuring the Prince of Wales feathers and motto scrolls with rose sprays. The second-floor windows have moulded sills supported by console brackets, which are part of a continuous sill band. A moulded storey band, a deep moulded cornice, and an inflected parapet run along the top of the front range. Bracketed cornices are present on the chimney stacks.

To the rear left of the front range is an older, late 18th-century building projecting forward beyond the left side elevation. This is a three-storey, four-window range of red brick in Flemish bond, with some flared headers, and features a four-panel, part-glazed door to the far right, with a straight hood on shaped brackets. A more recent door is located to the left of centre. Sixteen-pane sash windows are found on the ground and first floors, with flat-arched heads, while the second floor has twelve-pane sashes. The first-floor windows have small, shallow cast-iron balconies on scrolled brackets, and 19th-century blind boxes. Stepped and dentilled brick eaves complete this rear section. A smaller two-storey extension is adjoined to the left.