Description

WHITECROSS STREET TQ3281NW 635-1/78/902 (East side) 10/10/90 Whitbread's Brewery building, next to The King's Head public house

GV II

Brewery building. Dated 1904 over left-hand ground-floor opening. Red brick and granite, dressings of stone, roof of lead. Five storeys, five-window range. Granite base to ground floor with segmental-arched opening to left and four flat-arched windows; cornice. First and second floors framed by six giant Doric pilasters supporting bracketed dentil cornice with panelled frieze; the windows themselves originally flat-arched to first floor and round-arched to second under round arches with moulded stucco impost blocks and archivolts; except in the right-hand bay which has a scrolled bracket additionally below the impost block; three second-floor windows to left now flat-arched. Attic storey with flat-arched windows deeply recesed under cornice with engaged Doric antae between; late C20 lead-covered dormer runs the length of the roof between end gables; brewery chimney to south with stone band, panelled frieze and bracketed cornice.

Listing NGR: TQ3245781936

External Links

• Wikidata Q27082433

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