Bridport Old Brewery
BRIDPORT OLD BREWERY, WEST BAY ROAD, DT6 4JA
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1228731
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Bridport Old Brewery
- Statutory Address:
- BRIDPORT OLD BREWERY, WEST BAY ROAD, DT6 4JA
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1228731
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Bridport Old Brewery
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRIDPORT OLD BREWERY, WEST BAY ROAD, DT6 4JA
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:
- BRIDPORT OLD BREWERY, WEST BAY ROAD, DT6 4JA
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bridport
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 46540 92140
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 17/11/2016
SY 4692,
4/142
WEST BAY ROAD (West Side),
Bridport Old Brewery
G.V.
II
Established 1794; a former rain water head dated 1833 possibly refers to an extension of the brewery.
Hammer-dressed stone main block, with double-pitched thatch roof.
Coped gable ends with finials in form of barrels. 2 storeys and attics.
2 ranges of segment-headed windows with glazing bars, that on attic floor of south block round headed. South windows on north elevation.
Office block to south. Hammer-dressed stone. Hipped slate roof. 1 storey.
2 round arched windows with plain raised surrounds and vermiculated keystones,
1 more in south end. Door with semi-circular fanlight and similar surround.
Carriage entrance with 3 centred arch and rusticated voussoirs.
Further 1 storey extension to south. Red brick. Ashlar plinth, quoins, and
window dressings. Hipped slate roof. Red brick stack with ashlar cornicing.
1 storey. Moulded ashlar eaves cornice. Door up 4 steps with semi-circular
fanlight, plain raised surround and moulded imposts. 2 pairs of paired round
headed sashes, with sills on consoles, plain raised surrounds, moulded imposts
and dividing colonnettes.
Wall to garden at south. Hammer-dressed stone. Ramped upwards to door with
red brick surround, and ramped upwards at south end.
Arch between main block and west block on Skilling Hill Road side: 3-centred
with planked double doors.
West block is hammer-dressed stone. Pitched corrugated iron roof. 3 storeys,
taller at west end. 7 ranges of windows, barred on ground floor, casements
with glazing bars on 1st floor, and mullion and transom on 2nd floor. Rear
has various casements with glazing bars, irregularly placed, and large low
breast undershot water wheel with Poncelet-style blades (made by Helyear of Bridport in 1879 and driving
a 3-throw water pump). Tall red brick stack with ashlar cornicing at south-west
corner. The interior contains a vertical steam engine by Brown and May of
Devizes, which drives a water pump and works a sack hoist.
No. 2, all the Brewery Buildings, and Nos. 12 to 30 Fives Court Row form a group.
Listing NGR: SY4654092140
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 403409
- 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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