Dairy and brewhouse with attached pigsties approximately 50 metres east of Pradoe

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1307442
Date first listed:: 21-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:: Dairy and brewhouse with attached pigsties approximately 50 metres east of Pradoe
Statutory Address:: Dairy and brewhouse with attached pigsties approximately 50 metres east of Pradoe

The Missing Pieces Project

Share your view of unique places.

Add your contribution

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.

There is a problem

Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions.

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

🏠 Buildings
🏰 Scheduled monuments
🌳 Parks and gardens
⚔️ Battlefields
⚓ Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Images of England Project

To view this image please use Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or Edge.

Archive image, may not represent current condition of site.

Date:: 1999-09-09
Reference:: IOE01/01589/09
Rights:: © Mr Myk Briggs. Source: Historic England Archive

Historic England Archive

Search over 1 million photographs and drawings from the 1850s to the present day using our images archive.

Find Photos

Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1307442
Date first listed:: 21-Oct-1987
Date of most recent amendment:: 29-Jan-2004
List Entry Name:: Dairy and brewhouse with attached pigsties approximately 50 metres east of Pradoe
Statutory Address 1:: Dairy and brewhouse with attached pigsties approximately 50 metres east of Pradoe

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: Dairy and brewhouse with attached pigsties approximately 50 metres east of Pradoe

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

District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Ruyton-XI-Towns
National Grid Reference:: SJ 35903 24870

Details

1574/8/125

RUYTON XI TOWNS, Dairy and brewhouse with attached pigsties approximately 50 metres east of Pradoe

(Formerly listed as Former dairy and malt-house with pump and sink approximately 50 metres east of Pradoe)

21-OCT-1987

GV

II

Dairy and brewhouse, with attached pigsties; a museum at the time of inspection (2003). circa 1806 with minor later alterations and late C20 restoration. Uncoursed sandstone rubble, squared and dressed to north gable end of dairy; slate roofs. Dairy linked by part-covered passage to brewhouse on south, with pigsties attached along east side and slaughterhouse in northern bay.

DAIRY: one storey and attic. North gable end has round-arched doorway with nail-studded plank door flanked by segmental-headed C19 casement to right, horizontal sliding sash to left, and central oval window opening to gable. South gable end has segmental-headed leaded casements to ground floor and attic with segmental-headed boarded door to right. West wall has doorway with gable breaking eaves approached by external lateral steps to left of centre and integral corner stack with red brick shaft to right. C19 cast-iron pump in front of south gable end has plain ringed shaft, fluted dome cap with pointed finial and slightly curved handle; cast-iron sink below. Passage linking dairy to brewhouse has stone trough below eaves; segmental-headed doorway to east with stone basins for mixing pig swill to south.

INTERIOR: two-room dairy has stone shelves to north room with C18 and later wall tiles showing rural scenes; stained glass in horizontal sliding sash. Rear room has chamfered ceiling beam and tiled floor. Copper to right rear corner, cheese and butter presses, and churns Wooden stair to loft where roof structure has two pairs of purlins.

BREWHOUSE: one storey with segmental-headed window to centre of west wall.

INTERIOR: open to roof in two bays with central king-post. Two coppers (reinstated late C20), fitted side by side in a continuous bank of brickwork; single flue fitted between the coppers and against the side wall, with two niches providing firebox access at ground floor; timber platform at the level of the copper rim, with renewed late C20 railing, supported on stone block piers. Largely intact are the underworks, the pump ties, coolers and stone cistern.

PIGSTIES and SLAUGHTERHOUSE: to east side of dairy and brewhouse, a single storey range of pigsties under catslide roof, and with stone and brick walls continuing toward farmyard at east enclosing runs. The slaughterhouse advances further and is taller, with gabled roof with pulley beam.

HISTORY: The brewhouse was one of several outbuildings constructed c.1806 by Thomas Kenyon, who had bought Pradoe as a wedding present for his wife, Louisa Charlotte, in 1803. The brewhouse backs onto the pigsties and midden yard and was thus conveniently placed for the disposal of the grains. Tradition says that the rear porch at Pradoe (q.v.) was designed to accommodate callers who would use it to drink their ale or beer allowance. Brewing continued at Pradoe until 1902. The brewhouse was restored a century later, which included the reinstatement of new coppers.

SOURCES: Sambrook, Pamela. Country House Brewing in England 1500-1900. The Hambledon Press, 1996.

Listed as a good example of a c.1806 integrated dairy, brewhouse and pigsty that is complementary to the Grade II* Pradoe including attached service ranges and out-buildings (q.v), the Grade II farm buildings (q.v.), manure sump (q.v.), kitchen garden wall (q.v.), and carpenter's shop (q.v.) and the Grade II Registered landscape, all with which it has group value.

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 256677
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 35 Shropshire,

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.