Description

CARLISLE

NY3956SE BRIDGE STREET, Caldewgate
671-1/6/60 (North side)
29/05/87 Theakston's Carlisle Brewery

GV II

Brewery, now part being converted to Hall of Residence for
University of Northumbria. Early and late C19 for the Carlisle
Old Brewery Company, possibly with some C18 fabric; later
alterations and additions. Red brick with Welsh and Lakeland
slate roofs. 5 parallel ranges, tower and chimney.
The ranges are of 3 storeys, presenting 5 gables to the river.
Various largely altered openings. The gables, of which the 2
to the left are larger, have multi-brace king post truss
infill and are surmounted by gabled vents. The tower is of 4
storeys with plain openings and a pyramid roof, with a gabled
dormer to each face and a decorative iron fence to the apex
platform. Tall stone stack of tapering square section. Away
from the tower the elevations have many segmental-headed
windows with stone sills and there are a number of altered
doorways.
INTERIOR: Little remains of the buildings' original interior.
There are 3 ranges of wide-span king post roofs at right
angles to the river. These are bolted and strapped with iron
and are of C19 date.
HISTORY: The brewery opened in 1756 as Atkinson and Son, and
some buildings, although apparently not these, are shown on
the City Plan of 1794. The core of the present building is
shown on a plan of 1864 in Cumbria County Record Office
(Ca/E4/889). The present buildings were largely erected by Sir
Richard Hodgson whose brewery it was until nationalisation in
1916 when it became the brewery for the Liquor Control Board,
later the Carlisle and District State Management Scheme.
It was de-nationalised in 1971 and sold to Theakston's in
1974. After being left derelict for some years, approval was
given for a substantial part of the C19 section of the Brewery
to be demolished and the remainder to be refurbished. It is
evident that many of the present buildings were developed as
maltings and adapted to brewing. Included partly for historic
interest.

Listing NGR: NY3952256057

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26503936

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