Former Westlake's Brewery

Tall, five-storey, tower brewery flanked by lower offices and ancillary ranges. The huge scale of the main block enabled a capacity of 24-quarters. Constructed in local stone with red brick dressings including quoins, band courses and jambs; slate roof with offset hipped clerestory. The third and fourth floors have segmental headed windows with keystones and the top floor has a band of eight square-headed windows and a doorway onto outside stairs beyond. The gable ends have similar segmental headed windows; to the north end there is a Diocletian type window created by a central semicircular arch and the south end is rendered. Most of the glazing is of small-pane metal-frame type. Stepped down at north end is the hipped-roof two-storey office block which is distinguished from the main brewery by the use of freestone not brick dressings. At the corner there is a distinctive projecting bow window to first floor, with a crenellated parapet, in the manner of a tourelle and to the north side is a bulls-eye window. Old views of the brewery and evidence in the masonry show that the present gabled roof to the porch replaces the original Jacobethan detail with swept-up parapet and pedimented doorcase. These views also show that the former chimney to south end and a further smaller and moulded chimney on the north gable have been lost; the clerestory also had ironwork cresting and there was a hoist where the present outside stairs are.

Not inspected but now converted to use as a plastics factory.