Description

SK 89 NW, 698-1/4/857

MANCHESTER,
MOSS LANE WEST,
Moss Side

Hydes Anvil Brewery

II

Brewery. 1861. For Greatorex Brothers. Red brick with stone
dressings and slate roof. Various ranges group around a large
courtyard. Mainly two storeys with 3-storey ranges to rear.
Central gateway with elaborate gate piers and pedestrian gate
to left with moulded architrave and pediment. To left a
2-storey 4-window range with sash or sash-type windows set in
moulded frames or architraves and with segmental arched head.
Ground floor quoins, impost band and 1st-floor sill band.
Modillion cornice. Behind this facing the courtyard further
2-storey ranges with various sashed casements and doorways and
two gables with overhanging eaves and windows beneath
round-arched heads. A further range with roof louvre adjoins
rear range which has three groups of windows facing the courtyard.
Central gable with clock and ornamental finial. C20 loading
bays beneath. This range to rear facing has tall arches
running through two storeys with windows recessed behind them, a
cornice above and three groups of windows with moulded frames and
cambered heads. Sides similar with that to west having the base
of a truncated stack and a roof louvre. To the right of the
courtyard in front of part of the rear range a 2-storey range
with a blind arcade of tall arches on all sides filled by
various windows. This range has a cornice and full-length roof
louvre. In front of this range are other lower 2-storey range
with three gables facing and small lantern louvres. Another small
range to right of the entrance gateway. Interior not
inspected.

The brewery was built by the Greatorex Brothers as
Queen's Brewery in 1861 and has been occupied by Hyde's
Brewery itself established in the early 1860's, since 1899.

Listing NGR: SJ8319795858

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26579233

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Recommended Books

• 
  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)