The Old Maltings at Fountain Head Brewery
THE OLD MALTINGS AT FOUNTAIN HEAD BREWERY, MALTING ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1138779
- Date first listed:
- 18-Apr-1990
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Maltings at Fountain Head Brewery
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD MALTINGS AT FOUNTAIN HEAD BREWERY, MALTING ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1138779
- Date first listed:
- 18-Apr-1990
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Maltings at Fountain Head Brewery
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD MALTINGS AT FOUNTAIN HEAD BREWERY, MALTING ROAD
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD MALTINGS AT FOUNTAIN HEAD BREWERY, MALTING ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Calderdale (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 06667 26811
Details
MALTING ROAD 1. 1164 (South Side) OVENDEN WOOD The Old Maltings at Fountain Head Brewery SE 02 NE 4/429 II 2. Maltings, now converted to offices,1906 altered 1987. By William Chambers of London for Samuel Webster and Co. Coursed dresses sandstone with ashlar dressings, Welsh slate roof. Symmetrical on axis with 8-bay centre having 4 storeys and 3 attic floors; 1 x 2 bay tower and 1-bay hoist tower against east end; broader and taller 3-storey, 3 x 6 bay range across west end. East tower is pierced by square-headed train entrance which occupies 3 storeys and has multiple brick-arched soffit; offset band and still band beneath segmentally-headed window with iron bars; small rectangular window beneath eaves band set on blocks; swept hipped roof capped by slate-hung louvre. Hoist tower to right rises 7 storeys with window to each floor and hipped roof. Main range has segmentally-arched windows; those to ground floor within plinth; 1st floor windows all blocked; offset band above 3rd storey; eaves band on blocks. Above bay 8 is a cantilevered wooden hoist housing 3 rows of triangular dormers staggered 3:4:3; slate-hung houses at each of ridge, central cowl. Range across west end: segmentally-arched ground-floor openings with wide doorway on right; pilasters rise from 1st floor band to divide each bay having blocked 1st floor windows beneath small- rectangular 2nd floor openings with crossed iron bars. Plain ashlar entablature with blocks at eaves. Twin hipped roofs sweep up to slate-hung louvres. An outstanding example of its type built to a scale that evinces the success of the late C19 brewery trade in this area. Local authority plans register shows the building to have been designed in 1898.
Listing NGR: SE0666726811
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 447632
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
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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