Tower and Adjoining Maltings at Workington Brewery is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 December 1985. A Victorian Brewery.

Tower and Adjoining Maltings at Workington Brewery

WRENN ID
grim-screen-gold
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cumberland
Constituency
Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 December 1985
Type
Brewery
Period
Victorian
Address
Tower and Adjoining Maltings at Workington Brewery, CA14 3EA
OS grid reference
NY 004 288
Coordinates
54.64452, -3.54411
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The tower and adjoining maltings at Workington Brewery date from the mid-19th century. They feature painted rendered walls, a hipped slate roof on the tower, and Welsh slate on the maltings. The structure includes a six-storey, two-bay square tower with battlements and a tall chimney stack, built against a terrace, making the rear four storeys high. The flanking maltings consist of three storeys with two bays on the right and four bays on the left, with two storeys at the rear. The tower has central boarded doorways on each floor, each beneath a projecting wooden hoist house, and features two-light windows with quoined surrounds. The maltings also have similar two-light windows. This building is an important landscape feature on a hill overlooking the river, while further adjoining buildings are not of interest.

Local climate

Tower and Adjoining Maltings at Workington Brewery sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,540 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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