Main Brewery Building
MAIN BREWERY BUILDING, 21, WATTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1238290
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Main Brewery Building
- Statutory Address:
- MAIN BREWERY BUILDING, 21, WATTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1238290
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1992
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-Sept-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Main Brewery Building
- Statutory Address 1:
- MAIN BREWERY BUILDING, 21, WATTON ROAD
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:
- MAIN BREWERY BUILDING, 21, WATTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ware
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 35496 14575
Details
WARE TOWN
TL3514NE WATTON ROAD 829-1/7/170 (South side) 24/02/92 No.21 Main Brewery Building (Formerly Listed as: WATTON ROAD Main Brewery Building)
GV II
Brewery. Dated 1862. Yellow stock brick with red brick arches, partly weatherboarded timber frame. Pantile roofs with gabled ends. Tower brewery type, rectangular on plan with tower at left east end. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 2 storeys and 1 storey attic. North front: large 3-storey tower on left (east) with integral water tank in louvred gable, first and second floors have 2 segmental arch windows with louvres, the left on first floor a loading door; on ground floor 2 round arches of 5-bay arcade which continues to right under central 2-storey range, which has weatherboarded first floor with 3 windows. On right 1 storey and attic range with wide segmental arch opening with loft doorways inside. The tower has louvred ventilator on ridge and truncated chimney on rear south-west corner, 3-window east return and small tablet at second floor level on north front inscribed `CH.1862', denoting Caleb Hitch, son of Caleb Hitch Snr. who patented the interlocking brick used extensively locally. INTERIOR: the tower has iron columns supporting the floors and king-post roof over west range. In 1880s the brewery was occupied by William Wickham Ltd. (The Industrial Archaeology of the British Isles: Branch Johnson W: The Industrial Archaeology of Hertfordshire: Newton Abbot: 1970-: 179; Ware 25" to 1 Mile. Surveyed by the Ordnance Survey Department: 1851-).
Listing NGR: TL3551114569
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 412402
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Branch Johnson, W, The Industrial Archaeology of Hertfordshire, (1970), 179
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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