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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 76 NE 415 |
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| Type of record: | Building |
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| Name: | Lion Brewery, High Street Rochester |
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Summary
Brew house of Hulkes brewery with origins in probably the 1790s.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 75141 67946 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ76NE |
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| Parish: | ROCHESTER & CHATHAM, MEDWAY, KENT |
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Monument Types
- BREWERY (Post Medieval to Modern - 1790 AD? to 1912 AD)
Full description
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Brewhouse for brewery run by James hulkes. The brewery was sold to Charles Arkcoll and Co. And then to Style and Winch and closed in 1912. The building has been in use commercially until recent years. The shell is intact and there has been a buildings survey (C.A.T.?). There is planning consent to convert to flats.
(1) Edwin Harris, The Riverside.
Building probably dates from 1790s.
Jim Preston Personal Communication (Verbal communication). SKE13236.
Jim Preston Personal Communication (Verbal communication). Ske13236.
Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 2005, Archaelogical, Documentary and Historical Assessment of the Lower High Street/Ship Lane Proposed Development and Neighbouring Land, Rochester (Unpublished document). SKE15869.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | --- | Verbal communication: Jim Preston Personal Communication. |
| --- | Unpublished document: Canterbury Archaeological Trust. 2005. Archaelogical, Documentary and Historical Assessment of the Lower High Street/Ship Lane Proposed Development and Neighbouring Land, Rochester. |
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