Description

LICHFIELD

SK10NW BIRMINGHAM ROAD, Sandfields 1094-1/3/244 (West side (off)) Former Malthouse to the rear of Magnet Joinery

GV II

Malthouse. 1874. By George Scamell of London; for City Brewery Co. Brick with buff brick and ashlar dressings; slate roofs. Rectangular plan. 3-storey, 12-window, range with 5-storey cross-wing. North elevation, facing railway, has coped gable to wing to right end; steep hipped roof running north-south, to left of centre, with louvre under pyramidal roof at each end. Windows have sills and buff brick segmental heads, but those to top floor have ashlar lintels; most windows in tall recesses with top cogged cornices; originally with small-paned glazing, now shuttered. Part under hip has central round-headed recess with 1st floor entrance. Gabled timber hoist canopies to right of centre and to wing. Right return, 4-window range has windows in tall recesses and small C20 addition to left end. Rear has similar details. Brewing was an important local industry from the late C19, of which little evidence survives. (Victoria History of the County of Stafford: Greenslade M W: Lichfield: Oxford: 1990-: P.127-8).

Listing NGR: SK1142408542

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