Former Stable Block at Castle Hill Farm

Cadw's description

Location

Opposite the brewery to the SE.

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.

Reason for designation

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