Tolly Cobbold Brewery

TOLLY COBBOLD BREWERY

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1237415
Date first listed:
23-Oct-1989
List Entry Name:
Tolly Cobbold Brewery
Statutory Address:
TOLLY COBBOLD BREWERY
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1237415
Date first listed:
23-Oct-1989
List Entry Name:
Tolly Cobbold Brewery
Statutory Address 1:
TOLLY COBBOLD BREWERY

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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
TOLLY COBBOLD BREWERY

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Suffolk
District:
Ipswich (District Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TM 17079 43165

Details

The following building shall be added

1. 5379 IPSWICH CLIFF QUAY TM 14 SE 12/506 Tolly Cobbold Brewery

II GV

Tower brewery. 1896, by William Bradford. English bond red brick; hipped slate roofs with crested ridge tiles and moulded brick eaves brackets. L-plan. All elevations have segmental arches over cast-iron windows with middle-hung case- ments. 5-storey and attic block to north-east, of 2 (east) by 6 bay north elevations with 3 semicircular arched fourth-floor windows, gabled dormers and hipped-roofed lantern to viewing platform to rear; linked by 2-storey, 2-window range, surmounted by panelled cast-iron water tank and with reset early C17 studded door set in Tudor-arched architrave with overlights flanked by fluted pilasters to primitive caryatids supporting dentilled flat hood, to 4-storey and attic block to north-west, of 2 (north) by 3-bay (west) elevations, and 5-bay block to south-west articulated by raised pilasters and surmounted by louvred lantern to north-west and glazed lantern to south west. Interior: Fermentation tanks and tuns mostly replaced in C20; wrought-iron roof trusses to fermentation rooms, one of which (to south west) has reset copper brewing vessel of 1746; post and pad roof to granary; small steam engine by ER and F Turner.

Listing NGR: TM1707943165

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
428671
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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