Hyde's Anvil Brewery - Listed Building Details
Hyde's Anvil Brewery - Listed Building Details
Hyde's Anvil Brewery in Moss Side is a listed building (grade 2). The following is the official listing description.
List Entry Number: 1291088
Details
SK 89 NW, 698-1/4/857
MANCHESTER, MOSS LANE WEST, Moss Side
Hydes Anvil Brewery II
Brewery. 1861. For Greatorex Brothers. Red brick with stone dressings and slate roof. Various ranges group around a large courtyard. Mainly two storeys with 3-storey ranges to rear. Central gateway with elaborate gate piers and pedestrian gate to left with moulded architrave and pediment. To left a 2-storey 4-window range with sash or sash-type windows set in moulded frames or architraves and with segmental arched head. Ground floor quoins, impost band and 1st-floor sill band. Modillion cornice. Behind this facing the courtyard further 2-storey ranges with various sashed casements and doorways and two gables with overhanging eaves and windows beneath round-arched heads. A further range with roof louvre adjoins rear range which has three groups of windows facing the courtyard. Central gable with clock and ornamental finial. C20 loading bays beneath. This range to rear facing has tall arches running through two storeys with windows recessed behind them, a cornice above and three groups of windows with moulded frames and cambered heads. Sides similar with that to west having the base of a truncated stack and a roof louvre. To the right of the courtyard in front of part of the rear range a 2-storey range with a blind arcade of tall arches on all sides filled by various windows. This range has a cornice and full-length roof louvre. In front of this range are other lower 2-storey range with three gables facing and small lantern louvres. Another small range to right of the entrance gateway. Interior not inspected.
The brewery was built by the Greatorex Brothers as Queen's Brewery in 1861 and has been occupied by Hyde's Brewery itself established in the early 1860's, since 1899.
Listing NGR: SJ8319795858