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Latitude: 51.8134 / 51°48'48"N
Longitude: -0.0358 / 0°2'8"W
OS Eastings: 535496
OS Northings: 214576
OS Grid: TL354145
Mapcode National: GBR KBL.9RF
Mapcode Global: VHGPH.BPF6
Plus Code: 9C3XRX77+9M
Entry Name: Main Brewery Building
Listing Date: 24 February 1992
Last Amended: 13 September 1995
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1238290
English Heritage Legacy ID: 412402
ID on this website: 101238290
Location: Ware, East Hertfordshire, SG12
County: Hertfordshire
District: East Hertfordshire
Civil Parish: Ware
Built-Up Area: Ware
Traditional County: Hertfordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Hertfordshire
Church of England Parish: Ware
Church of England Diocese: St.Albans
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WARE TOWN
TL3514NE WATTON ROAD
829-1/7/170 (South side)
24/02/92 No.21
Main Brewery Building
(Formerly Listed as:
WATTON ROAD
Main Brewery Building)
GV II
Brewery. Dated 1862. Yellow stock brick with red brick arches,
partly weatherboarded timber frame. Pantile roofs with gabled
ends. Tower brewery type, rectangular on plan with tower at
left east end.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 2 storeys and 1 storey attic. North
front: large 3-storey tower on left (east) with integral water
tank in louvred gable, first and second floors have 2
segmental arch windows with louvres, the left on first floor a
loading door; on ground floor 2 round arches of 5-bay arcade
which continues to right under central 2-storey range, which
has weatherboarded first floor with 3 windows. On right 1
storey and attic range with wide segmental arch opening with
loft doorways inside. The tower has louvred ventilator on
ridge and truncated chimney on rear south-west corner,
3-window east return and small tablet at second floor level on
north front inscribed `CH.1862', denoting Caleb Hitch, son of
Caleb Hitch Snr. who patented the interlocking brick used
extensively locally.
INTERIOR: the tower has iron columns supporting the floors and
king-post roof over west range. In 1880s the brewery was
occupied by William Wickham Ltd.
(The Industrial Archaeology of the British Isles: Branch
Johnson W: The Industrial Archaeology of Hertfordshire: Newton
Abbot: 1970-: 179; Ware 25" to 1 Mile. Surveyed by the
Ordnance Survey Department: 1851-).
Listing NGR: TL3551114569
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