The Hayle Brewery
THE HAYLE BREWERY, 4, SEA LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1143668
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Hayle Brewery
- Statutory Address:
- THE HAYLE BREWERY, 4, SEA LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1143668
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Hayle Brewery
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE HAYLE BREWERY, 4, SEA 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.
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 HAYLE BREWERY, 4, SEA LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hayle
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 56454 37745
Details
HAYLE SEA LANE (west side), Hayle SW 5637-5737 11/153 No 4 (The Hayle Brewery) - GV II Brewery buildings. 1873. Built for The Hayle Brewery. Painted rubble walls with granite dressings. Grouted scantle slate roofs (part replaced with asbestos slate); hipped over the taller buildings; with gable ends to the other buildings. 3 brick chimneys: 2 over right-hand corners of tallest building and one over left-hand rear corner of single storey wing, left. Some wooden launders. Plan: Overall irregular U-shaped plan built on a steep slope up to the rear and to the right. Main range is 3 adjoining 2-storey rectangular blocks-on 3 levels; adjoining at right angles to front, right is 2-storey range with large louvred openings to the first floor; single storey waggon shed in front and single storey range (possibly former stables in front of the left hand side). Exterior: Main range has 2-storey front with 2-storey over basement block on the right. Roofs on 3 levels. Single storey wing adjoining in front of left-hand side and 2-storey range built in front of the right-hand side. Centre block has doorway on the left with loading doorway over and large doorway on the right (rear of this is a symmetrical 3 window front with wide eaves soffit to the roof). Tall building, right, has doorway on its left and loading doorway to each floor over and hoist boom above, (rear of this block is another symmetrical 3 window front). Returning is the left-hand wall of the 2-storey front range. This is a symmetrical front with central doorway, 2 windows at either side and louvred openings at rear). Wagon shed has 2 large doorways to the front (left-hand wall). The other buildings, left, and in front, have 3 doorways at the left-hand side. Interior: Not inspected but may be of interest. Formerly run by the Ellis family. First brewery circa 1815 when Christopher Ellis (1790-1867) aged 27 was set up in business by his godfather. In 1934 the company of Ellis and Son merged with St Austell Brewery and brewing at Hayle ceased. The brewery buildings became a depot of St Austell Brewery Co. Thirty freehold public houses were taken over. Historical information extracted from notes supplied by Hayle Town Council.
Listing NGR: SW5645437745
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 70259
- 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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