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

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27082433

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Recommended Books

• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)