Greene King Main Brewhouse Brewery Yard
GREENE KING MAIN BREWHOUSE BREWERY YARD, WESTGATE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1142282
- Date first listed:
- 30-Oct-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Greene King Main Brewhouse Brewery Yard
- Statutory Address:
- GREENE KING MAIN BREWHOUSE BREWERY YARD, WESTGATE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1142282
- Date first listed:
- 30-Oct-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Greene King Main Brewhouse Brewery Yard
- Statutory Address 1:
- GREENE KING MAIN BREWHOUSE BREWERY YARD, WESTGATE STREET
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:
- GREENE KING MAIN BREWHOUSE BREWERY YARD, WESTGATE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bury St. Edmunds
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 85634 63786
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8563NE WESTGATE STREET 639-1/11/686 (North side) Greene King Main Brewhouse: Brewery Yard
GV II
Brewhouse: the main brewhouse of the Greene King complex. Opened January 1939. In red brick with stone dressings; flat roof with parapet. Art Deco style. EXTERIOR: 6 storeys. Banded brick rustication to the ground storey topped by a heavy stone band. 4 rectangular windows in deep reveals to the ground storey. The upper front has a range of 5 windows rising the whole height of the building, arranged 1: 3: 1 with the centre breaking forward slightly: the 2 outer narrow and rectangular, in plain reveals, the 3 central semicircular headed, set into double-arched reveals. Small-paned cast-iron louvred window frames throughout. The main block of the building rises one storey higher than the front with a row of rectangular windows in shallow reveals. The double 6-panelled central entrance doors, up steps, are recessed in a heavy rectangular stone doorcase. INTERIOR: retains most of the original brewing machinery. On the upper storeys heavy supporting ironwork by Robert Boby & Sons of Bury St Edmunds. One of the very few brewhouses built during the interwar period and an impressive design. (Wilson RG: Greene King: A Business and Family History: Bury St Edmunds: 1983-: 196-198).
Listing NGR: TL8563463786
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 467713
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Wilson, R G, Greene King A Business and Family History, (1983), 196-198
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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