Complex consists of 3 buildings a warehouse (91273/1), boiler house (91273/3) and a third whose purpose is unknown (91273/2). They have had some alteration but are in good condition. Current use is not specified. 6 prints, 203w/15A-19A,21A, RCHME (1)
A four-storey, six-bay brewery building was constructed around 1760 out of the local red brick. This was Newark’s first industrial-scale brewery, the site was owned by William Handley but appears to have been leased by Samuel Sketchley. Sketchley’s brewery is still standing, albeit in a much-altered form and known as Dobson’s Quay. The fenestration all dates from after the building’s use as part of the brewery. The building was originally largely windowless in order to prevent contamination of the brew by wild yeasts in the air. Changes in the brickwork reveal successive alterations to insert and resize openings particularly on the ground floor where openings large enough for wagons were created and then later reduced in size to create domestic-scale openings. Later in the 19th century the building was converted to warehousing at which point the window openings were added along with hoists to move goods into the upper floors of the building, one of which remains on the first-floor front elevation. The building is today used as residential flats. (2)

Data Held: Ground Photograph (Ground photograph). SNT2646.

1 BW print, N15 16/36, SMR (missing)

Data Held: Ground Photograph (Ground photograph). SNT2646.

Digital images

<1> TPAT, 1993, NIAR Gazetteer, p 89 (Published document). SNT252.

<2> Historic England, 2024, Newark on Trent, Historic Area Assessment by Historic England (Unpublished document). SNT6029.