Old Brewery Building
OLD BREWERY BUILDING, PRINCES STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195240
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Old Brewery Building
- Statutory Address:
- OLD BREWERY BUILDING, PRINCES STREET
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- Date:
- 2001-06-30
- Reference:
- IOE01/06363/16
- Rights:
- © Mr Dennis Coote. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195240
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 25-Oct-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Old Brewery Building
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD BREWERY BUILDING, PRINCES 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:
- OLD BREWERY BUILDING, PRINCES STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Torbay (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 88577 60873
Details
PAIGNTON
SX8860 PRINCES STREET 1947-1/5/77 (West side) 10/01/75 Old Brewery Building (Formerly Listed as: PRINCES STREET Brewery Buildings)
GV II
Brewery building now in use as shop. c1860s. MATERIALS: Local red breccia rubble; slate roofs with lead rolls and crested ridge tiles; roof of malthouse with tall louvred ventilator. PLAN: Long rectangular block built stepping down the hill from left to right. First-floor entrance (possibly C20) at left end. Malthouse at right end. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4:2 window front (2 windows to the malthouse). Rectangular block with hipped roof has 4 ground-floor windows with painted segmental heads, elongating from left to right and glazed with casements with glazing bars. Rendered eaves band. 4 first-floor windows with rendered, moulded brackets to right and left of each lintel with simple aprons below with plain recangular panels. On the ground floor the bays of the malthouse are divided by 3 red sandstone pilasters, the capitals carved with barrels, below a fascia and cornice. The bays have been infilled with shop windows and doors, probably dating from 1982, when the building was renovated by the Devon Historic Buildings Trust. The first floor has 2 recessed casement windows with glazing bars under simple stuccoed hoods imitating a pediment and consoles. Louvred sections below eaves; ventilator pot with lead tent roof and weathervane. The right return of the malthouse is blind, with rougher masonry with local grey limestone inclusions. Rear elevation of main block rendered. INTERIOR: Not inspected. HISTORY: Previously occupied by the brewery Starkey, Knight and Ford.
Listing NGR: SX8857860875
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383849
- 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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