Crown Brewery Warehouse and Brewery Range

CROWN BREWERY WAREHOUSE AND BREWERY RANGE, SPA WELL LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1083329
Date first listed:
16-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:
Crown Brewery Warehouse and Brewery Range
Statutory Address:
CROWN BREWERY WAREHOUSE AND BREWERY RANGE, SPA WELL LANE
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1083329
Date first listed:
16-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:
Crown Brewery Warehouse and Brewery Range
Statutory Address 1:
CROWN BREWERY WAREHOUSE AND BREWERY RANGE, SPA WELL LANE

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

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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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

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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Location

Statutory Address:
CROWN BREWERY WAREHOUSE AND BREWERY RANGE, SPA WELL LANE

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

District:
East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Snaith and Cowick
National Grid Reference:
SE 64612 21453

Details

SNAITH AND COWICK SPA WELL LANE SE 62 SW (west side) West Cowick 2/94 Crown Brewery warehouse and brewery range GV II Brewery, now warehouse. c1888 for Hartleys Brewery Company. Red brick with black brick plinth, Welsh slate-clad wall to rear section, weatherboarded iucam Welsh slate roof. Approximately rectangular on plan, with single- room main section flanked by single-room ranges; stands on west side of courtyard, with earlier brewery and malt-kiln to south (qv), and former brewery-master's house and inn, No 2 (Wells House) to east (qv). Main range, east side: 3 storeys and basement, 4 bays in two 2-bay sections, with single-storey single-bay section to left, single-storey 2-bay section to right. Plinth. Main range: section to right breaks forward, outshut to front left with folding wagon doors. Board door to left, basement windows beneath cambered arches, 20-pane casements to ground and first floors with keyed segmental arches; moulded brick string courses to first and second floors. Section to left has first-floor canted bay with 12-pane and 2-pane sashes, cornice and flat roof, casements to second floor with margin bars beneath segmental arches, deep corbelled brick eaves cornice, hipped roof rising to large louvred section with hipped roof, gablets, ornate finials and exposed rafter-ends. Section to right has projecting enclosed timber lucam to second floor, supported on corbelled timber brackets, with windows to front, circular openings above and upper gabled section incorporated in main hipped roof. Hipped roof to 3-storey section to rear. Crested ridge tiles and curled gable finials throughout. Lower section to left has hipped roof and large central louvre with hipped roof and gablets, and square section chimney to south-west corner, rising to full height of building, with iron angle straps, brick bands and corbelled head with domed lead cap. Section to right has basement window, 20-pane casement beneath keyed cambered arch and open dentilled brick pediment to gable with blind keyed oculus in tympanum. C20 garage of no special interest adjoins to right. In 1867 John and Thomas Hartley, brewers, were operating at Cowick; Hartleys Brewery Company was incorporated in 1888. Most brewery equipment was removed from interior after brewing ceased c1959.

Listing NGR: SE6461221453

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Legacy System number:
164955
Legacy System:
LBS

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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.

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