Historic Buildings & Places’ Post

Brewers Quay is a former brewery in Weymouth, Dorset. Much of the current complex, with its distinctive red brick ‘North German Renaissance’ style frontage, dates from a 1903–04 rebuild, but the site has been used for brewing for over 700 years. Its final operator, Devenish Brewery, ceased beer production in 1985. It re-opened as a shopping centre in 1990, but has had a mixed history since then, with nearly a dozen different owners and almost as many failed schemes to find a viable new use of the building. A scheme for conversion to apartments as well as a new home of the Weymouth Museum was finally approved in 2016, but the site was again sold and the consent lapsed. A new, similar scheme has been submitted, but the museum space is to be consolidated on the ground floor, with more apartments proposed on the upper levels. This means that the vats and the remaining brewery equipment that were to be preserved in the museum will now be removed, leaving only the copper. Despite dating from the last phase of the brewery’s development, the vats and equipment are an important part of the brewery process and are indicative of the long history of brewing on site. HB&P have therefore called for a more sensitive scheme that retains the equipment within the building to enable visitors and residents to understand the evolution and past use of these brewery buildings. 📷: Photo by Collin West #Casework #BrewersQuay #Weymouth #Dorset #Planning #Heritage #HistoricBuildings #HistoricArchitecture

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James Holloway

Independent historian: English Civil War, War Between the States, Napoleon, Deep South, Dartmoor. Veteran financial writer/market observer, master of fixed income/macro; mentor, builder of happy teams. AMA

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Where were these bricks manufactured? (The only English brickyard I know about is the one in the Woolpit area.) Such a lovely shade.

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