Description

GEDLING MANSFIELD ROAD
SK 54 SE
6/164 Home Ales Brewery
Offices and attached
railing
II
Brewery office building and water tower. 1936. Designed for Home Ales Brewery by T. Cecil
Howitt. Steel framed with brick cladding with ashlar dressings. Main west front has central very
large ashlar faced square arched lorry entrance, with ornate iron gates with gilded lettering
eitherside are single panel doorways with octagonal bronze lamps above. Over the arch in raised
lettering "HOME BREWERY COMPANY LIMITED". Above a large Diocletian window
with brick mullions and metal framed casements. Above a very tall square tower, slightly
battered with pairs of stripped pilaster buttresses on each face with a small pantile hood, above
a tall brick parapet with ashlar coping. The side faces have raised lettering "HOME OF THE
BEST ALES". Eitherside 12 bay flanking 2 storey office wings with a deep basement faced in
ashlar. Above both floors have windows with metal frames set back with painted relief panels
between, and flanked by plain brick piers and continuous ashlar cill band. Above a tall ashler
parapet with ashlar coping. Above a set back attic storey faced in ashlar with 4 metal frame
windows to each side with banded ashlar parapet. At the front to the street a low brick wall
with ashlar parapet with iron railings and piers.

Listing NGR: SK5798444938

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26530729

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)