Listed Building: NORTHGATE BREWERY OFFICE RANGE AND BREWHOUSE (3.54.309)

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Grade II
Authority
EH LBS Legacy ID 385168
Date assigned 27 November 1975
Date last amended

Description

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. (EH)

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Grid reference Centred SK 80140 54541 (65m by 61m)
Map sheet SK85SW
District Newark
Civil Parish Newark, Newark

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Record last edited

Apr 29 2015 11:39AM

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