Anchor Marine Stores (Malting And Kiln Of Warwick'S Anchor Brewery)

SE 36 NE LANGTHORPE LEEMING LANE SE 3934 6716 (west side, off)

3/29 Anchor Marine Stores (malting and kiln of Warwick's Anchor Brewery)

GV II

Maltings and kiln, now shop, offices and stores. c1850 of 2 builds. Red/brown brick, English bond, gritstone ramp, grey slate roof. 3 storeys with basement, approximately 3 bays to main range, with square 2-storey kiln at south-east end. Main range: south-west side: main entrance on first floor left, reached from stone loading platform, loading doors above. Basement area reached through board doors to right. Small square windows, to second and third storeys with cambered header-brick arches, the third- storey windows under eaves. Loading door third floor far left, gable above eavesline. Kiln to right: original central board door reached through lean- to addition. Conical flue built in headers, repaired at top, cowl missing. Interior: main range: floors carried on cast-iron girders supported by slender cast-iron columns manufactured by C Corcoran, 31 Mark Lane (possibly Leeds). Kiln: floors missing; on first floor, wall to main range has large doorway flanked by smaller openings, all with iron doors; similar small openings, boarded up, on other 3 sides. Garage doors inserted into south- east side mid C20. The malting process in this building involved the spreading out of the wetted barley on one floor of the main range. The barley was turned and ventilated for a few days before being gently dried in the kiln. The kiln was composed of a ground-floor furnace room and a drying room above, through which the warm air was drawn by the flue. The malted barley was then transfered to the brewery. The building was used by Warwick and Co's Anchor Brewery. New brewery buildings were constructed in 1856 immediately to the north-west of the maltings and a larger maltings was constructed c1875 across the railway line to the north. The malting is probably the oldest surviving building of its type in the county and forms a group with the tower brewery (qv) and later kiln and maltings (qv). J Hatcher, The Industrial Architecture of Yorkshire, 1985, pp 137, 138.

Listing NGR: SE3933767167