THE OLD BREWERY WITH WALL ENCLOSING COURTYARD

THE OLD BREWERY WITH WALL ENCLOSING COURTYARD, NEWTOWN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1036164
Date first listed:: 15-Jul-1986
List Entry Name:: THE OLD BREWERY WITH WALL ENCLOSING COURTYARD
Statutory Address:: THE OLD BREWERY WITH WALL ENCLOSING COURTYARD, NEWTOWN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1036164
Date first listed:: 15-Jul-1986
List Entry Name:: THE OLD BREWERY WITH WALL ENCLOSING COURTYARD
Statutory Address 1:: THE OLD BREWERY WITH WALL ENCLOSING COURTYARD, NEWTOWN

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: THE OLD BREWERY WITH WALL ENCLOSING COURTYARD, NEWTOWN

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Bradford-on-Avon
National Grid Reference:: ST8221760838

Details

1 BRADFORD-ON-AVON NEWTOWN 5411 (North Side)

ST8261 4/306 The Old Brewery with wall enclosing courtyard

II

Building also returns to Wine Street, east side. Brewery, now workshops. Earliest section, right,in good limestone ashlar with Welsh-slate roof, ground floor area in squared and dressed limestone, boundary wall ashlar; middle section squared and dressed limestone and slate roof; later double unit, left has ashlar to Wine Street, squared and coursed stone elsewhere, slate roofs. Early unit is ivy-covered at the right end but appears to have extended further to right originally; 5 storeys set back and partly built into the rock face, with a series of 6 large round arched vaulted bays formerly open, some now enclosed at front, under segmental flush arches witha projecting keystone under a continuous plat-band. Above are 9 bays with small openings to flat 3-centred heads, all in flush stonework; in bay 4 are 3 loading openings vertically with a fourth set off to left in the top storey and a similar series in bay 9. The middle section, set at a slight angle to the first has 3 very lofty open arched spaces rising to the level of floor 3 in the adjacent block, and with some sub-division within running back to the rock face. Above are 6 close-set windows below 3 wide-spaced, detailed as earlier block but with projecting cills. Left-hand block has two coped gables to Wine Street in 3 and 2 bays with alternately 2-light cross-mullioned flush chamfered casements, some with shutters and loading bay doors, chamfered surrounds and prominent keystones; plinth dies into slope at left. Right return, hard on street, runs down slope to right in 3 bays in 4 storeys with basement; heads of 3 lights at low level in plinth at ground and first floor single light casements in flush surrounds, at second floor three 3-light casements, that to right with small pane glazing; under eaves are three 2-light wood louvred ventilation openings.

Interior of early block has vaulted chambers to lowest level, then two levels of malting floors with flat segmental arched vaults on cast iron columns and beams carried on large stone corbels, upper levels have light iron framework, large open top floor with queen post trusses; corrugated clear plastic inserted to large areas of roofing. Second block has iron columns with branched heads, bearing makers' name STACEY, to wood structure generally. Boundary wall to Newtownhas large central arch with keystone flanked by blind arches or square panels with keys. To right is ramp and set back portion of wall stepped up slope with alternating arched and square panels, the whole returned to original face of main building. This is a splendid building of Piranesian grandeur very largely as built, and holding a vital position in the townscape of Bradford on-Avon especially as seen from the river area.

Listing NGR: ST8221760838

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.