Details
NEWARK ON TRENT
SK85SW NORTHGATE
619-1/4/317 (North West side)
27/11/75 Northgate brewery office range and
brewhouse
GV II
Brewery offices and brewhouse, now disused. Office range dated
1890, brewhouse 1871 and 1882. 1882 and 1890 ranges by William
Bliss Sanders for Richard Warwick, brewer, of Warwicks &
Richardsons Ltd. Office range, brick with terracotta and stone
dressings and hipped plain tile roof with 2 side wall stacks,
one of them panelled, and 2 party wall stacks, all coped.
Early C18 Domestic Revival style. 2 storeys; 14 window range,
arranged 3:2:9. Plinth, sill and impost bands. Windows have
keystones. Entrance block, to left, has canted wooden oriel
window with central fanlight, flanked by single segment headed
12 pane sashes. Above the oriel, a crest flanked by fluted
pilasters. To its right, a segment headed triple sash with a
moulded broken pediment and flanked by pilasters. Below, to
left, a round arched carriageway entrance with keystone and
impost bands, and a pair of panelled wooden gates with moulded
top centre panels flanked by balusters. To right, main
entrance with short flanking pilasters with palmette finials
and moulded doorcase with scrolled broken pediment. Central
shell and swag flanked by relief moulding of barley sheaves
and date. Panelled 2 leaf door with overlight. To right, an
oval window with 4 keystones and below it a bronze plate with
moulded surround. Plainer office block, to right, has ten
segment headed 12 pane sashes with aprons and below, 8 round
headed wooden cross casements with cast iron fanlights.
Returns have two 12 pane sashes. Brewhouse, red brick with
blue brick dressings and gabled and hipped slate roofs, has
plinth, first floor and impost bands and dentillated eaves.
Windows are mainly round headed cast iron glazing bar
casements. South west front has an off-centre main gable, 3
storeys, with 4 windows on the upper floors and a central
round headed doorway flanked by single windows. To right, a 2
storey range with 3 pairs of windows on each floor and a
ventilated clerestorey roof. To left, a 2 storey gable with a
canted brick oriel window with plain sashes and below, 2 round
headed windows. To left again, a 3 window range, 2 storeys
plus attics, with paired windows and above, 4 gabled dormers.
Louvred clerestorey with 6 bay hipped roof. Below, an
elliptical arched carriage entrance and 2 paired windows. To
left again, a projecting gable with a canted brick oriel
window, and 2 windows below. North east front has 1871 block
to right. 3 storeys; 8 window range, with canted brick oriel
to left and 4 gabled dormers above. Louvred clerestorey with 6
bay hipped roof. To right, 3 storey stair tower with
corrugated iron roof and 2 windows on each upper floor. 1882
range, to left, has to right a projecting gabled 3 storey main
block with 4 windows on the upper floors, the second floor
centre pair being larger. To left, a 2 storey range with
projecting 3 window gable, flanked to left by 2 windows and to
right by 4. Ventilated clerestorey roof. On the ground floor,
a 20 bay polychrome Gothic arcade across the whole front,
forming a loading bay, flanked to left by a round headed
doorway and to right by a similar altered opening. Under the
arcade, transverse round arches.
Office range has well designed interior with moulded cornices.
Panelled office enclosure in Classical style with reeded
pilasters and pedimented glazed main door. To its left,
panelled door with sidelights. Panelled curved mahogany
counter. Renaissance Revival style wooden stair with turned
balusters and square newels with obelisk finials. Unusual
crenellated radiators in tiled recesses below windows. First
floor boardroom has enriched Classical fireplace. Brewhouse
has a brick vaulted ground floor on round iron columns and
tiled upper floors with similar columns. First floor yeast
room has concrete vault and glazed brick lining. Open well
iron and wood stair with stick balusters. The rest of the
brewing equipment has been removed.
(Buildings of England: N Pevsner, revised E Williamson:
Nottinghamshire: London: 1979-: 200).
Listing NGR: SK8014654538
