Listed Building record MDO13852 - The Old Brewery, West Street, Fontmell Magna

Industrial building dated 1876, the home of Fontmell Potteries. The building has brick walls and a slate roof. There is a projecting wooden hoist on the first floor.

Recorded by NRIM. Small former brewery adjacent to the Crown Inn built in 1876. English bond brick walls with hipped slate roof. Roof bears large ventilator. Dentilled eaves cornice. To the left, part of the roof is flat and bears a water tank. 3 storeys, 3 window range. Openings under gauged brick arches with keystones. Windows mainly 4-pane sashes. Upper floor has two 2-light casements under a single arch. Central plank door. Left is what was probably formerly a vehicle entrance now containing showroom entrance. To the upper floor left is a projecting wooden hoist. <1>

Crown Brewery, Fontmell Magna was founded in 1780 by the Flowers Family and later acquired by A and T Sibeth. Brewing ceased on 14th December 1904 and was sold with 21 public houses for £25,410. The public houses were sold piecemeal to local brewers including Hall and Woodhouse Ltd, Baxter and Sons and Marston's Dolphin Brewery Ltd. The brewery buildings are still extant and were built in 1876, with additional work of 1891.After 1904 the brewery was used as a pottery. It is a typical example of a small brewery with defining elements of a tower, louvre ventilation, ornamental ironwork, hoist cover and water tank. <2-3>

<1> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, National Record of Industrial Monuments (NRIM), DO42 (Index). SDO17399.

Recorded by RG Farleigh, 19-Oct-1968, Record No. DO42

<2> Higginbotham, P, 2000, World Wide Web page andlt;http://www.workhouses.org.uk/, The Brewery History Society: Breweries, Dorset - Fontmell Magna, A & T Sibeth, Crown Brewery (Digital archive). SDO17705.

<http://www.breweryhistory.com/Breweries/DorsetFontmellCrownBrewery.htm> [Accessed 10-AUG-2011]

<3> Anderson, Lynn, 2010, Strategy for the Historic Industrial Environment: The Brewing Industry, 21 (Index). SDO17707.

<4> Newman, J, and Pevsner, N, 1972, The Buildings of England: Dorset, 208 (Monograph). SWX1290.

<5> Historic England, Historic England Archive, NRI01 (Index). SDO14738.

National Record of Industrial Monuments (NRIM): Index Cards: This material has not yet been fully catalogued. Copyright, date, and quantity information for this record may be incomplete or inaccurate.The collection consists of topographically arranged index cards and copies relating to individual monuments and county lists of monuments associated with the National Record of Industrial Monuments (NRIM) between 1963 and 1980. The NRIM was set up by the Council for British Archaeology (CBA) in 1963 and administration was taken over by the University of Bath in 1965. Record cards for individual buildings were completed by interested parties and submitted. Sets of cards were maintained by the CBA, University of Bath (latterly the Industrial Monuments Survey) and the National Monuments Record.In 2012 the collection was updated by Heritage Data and where appropriate monuments were allocated a county designation number.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1514402 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Aug 22 2024 8:06PM