Description

WOLVERHAMPTON

SO99NW CAMBRIDGE STREET
895-1/5/370 (West side)
19/08/91 Springfield Brewery

GV II

Tower brewery. 1873 for William Butler. Flemish bond brick
with blue brick bands and dressings; gabled and hipped Welsh
slate roofs; large brick stack at junction of main and rear
wings. L-plan with rear right east wing. Front range of 4
storeys has bays articulated by side and clasping buttresses.
Weatherboarded sack hoist with hipped roof. Segmental-arched
windows; round windows to upper storeys with decorative
cast-iron glazing bars in radiating rose-window pattern.
Cast-iron brackets to cantilevered-out cast-iron water tank.
East wing has round-arched windows set in recessed
round-arched full-height bays; cast-iron lintel over wide
entrance to front (west); hipped roof to glazed lantern
surmounting roof. Lower 2-storey block further to rear.
INTERIOR noted as having cast-iron frame and late C19
fermenting rounds and mash tuns.

Listing NGR: SO9188399365

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26497489

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Recommended Books

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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)