Vat House, Truman's Brewery
VAT HOUSE, TRUMAN'S BREWERY, 148, BRICK LANE E1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1357789
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Vat House, Truman's Brewery
- Statutory Address:
- VAT HOUSE, TRUMAN'S BREWERY, 148, BRICK LANE E1
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1357789
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1949
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 24-Mar-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Vat House, Truman's Brewery
- Statutory Address 1:
- VAT HOUSE, TRUMAN'S BREWERY, 148, BRICK LANE E1
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:
- VAT HOUSE, TRUMAN'S BREWERY, 148, BRICK LANE E1
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Tower Hamlets (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 33888 82028
Details
In the entries for:
1. BRICK LANE E1 and E2 4431 (east side)
TQ 3382 8/99 18.7.49 Black Eagle Brewery Truman's Brewery
II GV
the two entries shall be replaced by the following two entries:
TQ3382 BRICK LANE El (east side)
788-/8/99 no. 148 Vat House, 18.7.49 Truman's Brewery
GV II
Former vat house, now offices and stores. c.1800, though with a half-basement and ground-floor remodelled c.1840s and later alterations. Stock brick with stone bands and copings. Two storeys, attic and semi basement, the latter entered at ground level from two-storey projecting rear. Symmetrical three-bay front to Brick Lane with blind ground-floor save for inserted central six-panelled double doors in stone surround with console brackets and pediment. Three round-arched tripartite metal windows over light the first floor and attic, the latter containing the mechanism for the clock in the pediment, which rises over stone brackets and iron tie-plates. Hexagonal cupola with weathervane. The interior is remarkable for the forest of iron columns, with capitals, and I-section girders inserted c.1840s. This is fully exposed in the semi-basement, where it supports a stone flagged floor suggestive of a fireproof construction. There is evidence of a similar system on the ground-floor amidst sub-divisions. Later panelling to staircase; the stair from first floor to attic is of iron with an iron stick balustrade incorporating tiny volutes.
------------------------------------ BRICK LANE E1 and E2 1. 4431 (East Side) Black Eagle Brewery Truman' Brewery TQ 3382 8/99 18.7.49. II GV 2. Early C19 warehouse at rear end of listed buildings on front of Brick Lane. Stock brick with stucco bands and eaves cornice. 5 storeys. 3 bays, centre one is door rank. Windows with segmental heads and glazing bars.
The buildings of Black Eagle Brewery, on both sides of Brick Lane, form a group.
Listing NGR: TQ3388882028
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 205794
- 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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