Felinfoel Brewery

The buildings now constitute a picturesque and historically interesting roadside group with two taller hip-roofed parts linked by a lower mid section. They are also a good survival of buildings in the functional tradition illustrating the necessary features of economical industrialised brewing: height and ventilation.

Local sandstone is used throughout with ashlar quoins and yellow brick dressings to openings. The roofs are all of slate with tile ridges and hips. The detailing was set by the first block (a), and is followed in simplified form in the later additions. Block (a) has rock-faced stonework irregularly coursed and two string courses of yellow bricks. There are large ventilators (now closed) to the top storey with brick dressings to the jambs and stone sills, four to the front and rear and three in the N end-elevation. The windows in the storeys beneath have semicircular or three-centred arch heads consisting of three rings of brickwork, and stone sills. Where not boarded or walled up, the windows have frames of mullion and transom type. Those walled up may have been ventilators.

The later blocks of the group have randomly coursed axe-dressed masonry. Block (b) also has closed ventilators at the top, and round headed windows with some replaced frames, original windows to W; the arches are semicircular and have stone keys and springers. The bottom opening of the taller part is a boarded loading-bay door. In block (c) the quoins are less regular and the window heads have cambered flat arches. There is a white-coloured hoist shaft against the S face. In block (d) the openings are walled up, four round headed arches beneath a cambered arched opening at the apex of the gable. There are prominent name boards of the Brewery, the main one being on the low middle section overlooking the road.

Timber construction with supporting iron columns. Said to be good gallery balustrades. Excise regulations prevented full inspection.