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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 64 NW 33
Type of record:Monument
Name:The close brewery, hadlow

Summary

Pair of nineteenth century maltings surviving at brewery site


Grid Reference:TQ 6320 4975
Map Sheet:TQ64NW
Parish:HADLOW, TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, KENT

Monument Types

  • BREWERY (BREWERY, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • MALTINGS (MALTINGS, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Full description

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Hadlow Brewery, High St Hadlow. Two large C19 maltings of the former Hadlow Brewery built in 1859 and c1880. Both are square plan buildings with kilns at each end. Built in brick with external pilasters. Rest of brewery buildings demolished, maltings converted to housing in 1988. Listed grade 2. (1) The Close Brewery, est pre 1840 by Mrs Mercy Barton, acquired c1850 Harrison & Taylor; Kenward and Barnet from 1858 and Kenward and Court from 1871. Taken over by Hammerton and Co of London in 1945, closed 1949 and bought by Charrington who cleared some buildings and converted others to housing. (2)


<1> Not applicable, SMR Kent uncatalogued index entry, Listed Building Description (Miscellaneous Material). SKE6440.

<2> Norman Barber (Brewery History Society 1994), A Century of British Brewers 1890-1990 (Bibliographic reference). SKE6449.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>Miscellaneous Material: Not applicable. SMR Kent uncatalogued index entry. Listed Building Description.
<2>Bibliographic reference: Norman Barber (Brewery History Society 1994). A Century of British Brewers 1890-1990.