Survey Data
Reg No
50080660
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Previous Name
Phoenix Brewery
Original Use
Malt house
In Use As
Centre
Date
1895 - 1900
Coordinates
314621, 233451
Date Recorded
08/11/2013
Date Updated
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Description
Freestanding former malthouse, built 1899, having seven-bay three-storey front (east) elevation and three-bay, three-storey north elevation. Projection to south elevation having catslide roof. Now in use as Pentecostal church. Hipped slate roof with yellow brick chimneystack. Snecked limestone walls with dressed limestone quoins to east and north elevations. Rendered walls to south and west elevations. Concrete buttress to front elevation. Segmental-headed window openings to first and second floors, square-headed window openings to ground floor, all with yellow brick block-and-start surrounds and having recent casement windows. Segmental-headed door opening with yellow brick block-and-start surrounds having recent limestone steps. Recent door opening to rear elevation.
Appraisal
This building is all that remains of a once extensive malt house, located on the west side of Ardee Street. It was constructed at the end of the nineteenth century by the Phoenix Brewery, on the site of an earlier mill, and is a reminder of the industrial buildings which would have typified the area around Cork Street and Ardee Street in the nineteenth century. It is well-built in local calp limestone with the yellow brick dressings adding colour and textural contrast.