History

The Castle Hill Farm complex was established in the early C19 as Fox's Brewery and continued as a working brewery until 1950. The surviving buildings date mainly from the second quarter C19 to the late C19, and consist of the owner's house, a brewery range with adjacent malting tower, a large granary with dray house, a stable block and a brewery office. They are ranged loosely around a courtyard

Exterior

A low L-shaped, 2-storey stable block, probably late C18 with later additions. Shallow-pitched slate roof. In 3 main sections, the central part of rubble stone and with 2 plain entrances with plain wooden lintels. Modern boarded door to Left hand one and the door missing to R with a plain shuttered window above. Continuously-roofed with this, a 2-bay brick addition to the L, abutting the yard's W gate pier. Entrance to the R with cambered head and missing door. Plain shuttered window above. To the L on the ground floor, a 2-light window, cambered as before. To the R of the central section an advanced gabled wing, forming an L-shape with the main block. External stepped first floor-access at the gable-end. Ground floor rebuilt in brick in the mid C19. 2 stable-doors with cambered heads, that to the R with replaced boarded door.

Interior

Mid-Victorian cast iron stalls and brick floor.

Reasons for Listing

Group value with other listed items within the remarkable Fox's Brewery complex.

External Links

• Cadwr Listing
• Wikidata Q29492887

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Recommended Books

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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)