Survey Data
Reg No
20844058
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Previous Name
Brewery House
Original Use
Miller's house
In Use As
House
Date
1840 - 1880
Coordinates
149610, 55187
Date Recorded
08/05/2009
Date Updated
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Description
Attached four-bay two-storey house, built c.1860, having porch to front (west) and lean-to additions to side (north). Bowed bay to rear (east). House formed part of Watergate Brewery or Cornwall's Brewery. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, eaves course, render gable copings and cast-iron rainwater goods. Felt-lined flat roof to bowed bay. Roughcast rendered walls, having rendered walls to ground floor of front elevation and rear elevation. Rendered walls to porch having tooled stone plinths. Square-headed window openings with tooled limestone and render sills throughout, having internal timber panelled shutter and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to front elevation. Replacement timber casement window to lean-to addition and to rear elevation of house. Stained glass window to northern end of ground floor to rear elevation. Round-headed stairwell window to rear elevation of bowed bay having multi-pane timber casement window. Round-headed window openings to side (north and south) elevations of porch. Bowed timber casement window with decorative rendered cornice to ground floor of front elevation of lean-to addition. Elliptical-headed door opening having paved stone approach, replacement timber doorcase and timber panelled door surmounted by fanlight. Square-headed door opening with double-leaf timber glazed doors to front elevation. Situated within own grounds, enclosed by rendered rubble-stone boundary walls with splayed entrance comprising rendered square-profile piers and pyramidal tooled stone capping.
Appraisal
Formerly associated with Watergate Brewery, previously known as Cornwall's Brewery, this house is a reminder of the scale of a brewery complex which once supported the local economy in Bandon. The brewery was established in 1785 and was adapted as a mineral water factory in 1914: the site is labelled as "Watergate Bottling Stores" on the Ordnance Survey. The house retains its form and much historic fabric including timber sash windows with panelled internal shutters.