Former Cromwell Brewery

The Former Cromwell Brewery is a three-storey building dating from the 19th century, constructed of painted stucco with a slate flat-eaved roof and a small brick stack at the left end. It features a large six-bay range with stucco quoins and a plinth made of large blocks of tooled stone. The building has four-pane sash windows, which are shorter on the upper floor. There are doorways with steps leading from the street in the first and fourth bays from the left. The left doorway and a small tilting window to its left are not aligned with the windows above. The right doorway includes an overlight.

The sixth bay contains a very large former entry to the brewery yard, which is flanked by giant pilasters and has an entablature with a modillion cornice that cuts across the first-floor right window. The doorcase is unusually high because the ceiling slopes down to the main floor level. There are two large boarded gates with tops that ramp down to the center, featuring heavy iron hinges, iron studding, and diagonally-crossed strengthening braces. A pedestrian door is set within one of the gates.

At the rear, which has five bays, there are 20th-century square upper windows, with a small gable over the center one. The first-floor center window has a timber lintel, and there is a former cart entry to the right, which has a brick cambered head and a keystone with the date 1922 incised on it. A lean-to is located at the rear right, adjacent to a long southeast rear wing that backs onto the Long Entry car park. The back wall is roughcast, showing outlines that suggest it has been raised on an older original structure, with two corbels visible. The side facing the brewery yard has been significantly altered with 20th-century windows.

Inside, the ground floor, now used as a café, features two late 19th-century iron columns that support an axial beam. On the rear wall, there is a medieval pointed doorway, raised approximately three feet above the floor level, likely relating to a lost medieval building behind. This doorway is made of grey stone and is chamfered. The left end wall, constructed of rubble stone, has a blocked arched doorway with stone voussoirs.