Brewhouse at Hook Norton Brewery
BREWHOUSE AT HOOK NORTON BREWERY, BREWERY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1198426
- Date first listed:
- 09-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Brewhouse at Hook Norton Brewery
- Statutory Address:
- BREWHOUSE AT HOOK NORTON BREWERY, BREWERY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1198426
- Date first listed:
- 09-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Brewhouse at Hook Norton Brewery
- Statutory Address 1:
- BREWHOUSE AT HOOK NORTON BREWERY, BREWERY 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:
- BREWHOUSE AT HOOK NORTON BREWERY, BREWERY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hook Norton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 34829 33294
Details
HOOK NORTON BREWERY LANE SP33SW (West side) 4/11 Brewhouse at Hook Norton Brewery
GV II Brewhouse. Established on site c. 1850. 3-storey tower brewery 1872. Present 6-floor tower brewery c.1898 by William Bradford of London, incorporating earlier brewery. Ironstone with some ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roofs with ornamental ridge tiles. Brewhouse of three main parts: copper house to left, 6-floor tower brewery and fermenting house. Copper house: single storey with tall paired lights, cast-iron glazing bars and chamfered stone lintels. Hipped roof with triangular dormers and hipped, gabled lantern. Tower brewery of two sections: 4-storeys to the left with paired recessed windows, cast-iron glazing bars and chamfered stone lintels. Machiolated stonework at eaves. Hipped gambrel roof with triangular lights and hipped gabled lantern to the cooling house. Moulded band above 3rd storey. 6-storey tower on right with mock timber frame and hipped roof to sack-hoist housing. Segmental headed window with cast- iron glazing bars to the 5th storey. Machiolated stonework above. Cast-iron panels and long rectangular lights to 6th storey. Tower has hipped gabled roof with triangular lights in gable. Doorway to steam-engine house has stone architraves and scroll pediment. 4-storey fermenting house on right has tall lights with wooden glazing bars and stone sills. Wooden door to first floor. Gabled roof, Welsh slate with brick end stack on right. Irregular L-plan ranges to rear. Interior: brewing equipment of c1850 and c1900; stationary steam engine supplied by Messrs. Buxton and Thornley of Burton on Trent. Associated range of buildings including stable block 1898, offices with cellar 1896, and malthouse 1865 and earlier. History: Hook Norton is the last independant brewery in North Oxfordshire. (Gosling, Sarah - A Changing Landscape, Oxfordshire County Council, Department of Museum Services, Publication No.8; Hook Norton, A Heritage Brewery)
Listing NGR: SP3482333296
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 244021
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hook Norton A Heritage Brewery, ()
Gosling, S, Oxfordshire Museums Information Sheet in A Changing Landscape, Vol. 8, ()
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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