Late 19th century brewery, Stansted Brewery, Lower Street (EHER 15965)

This is the site of the Stansted Brewery first recorded in the 1870s under the partnership of a Mr. Wiffen, Calverley Bewiche Brown and Samuel Smith Rogers. It was documented in a 2002 survey.

2002. Survey. This is the site of the Stansted Brewery first recorded in the 1870s under the partnership of a Mr. Wiffen, Calverley Bewiche Brown and Samuel Smith Rogers. Mr Wiffen may have been the William Wiffen, corn merchant and maltster of Forest Hall, Birchanger (EHER 15276). The business was purchased by the Rowell family around 1895 and remained in the family until sold in 1925, brewing having ceased. The small brewhouse producing about ten barrels per week, was in the orchard behind 'Brewery House' and actually was closer to Brewery Lane, while the house fronted Lower Street. The brewhouse has been demolished and the site now occupied by housing. 'Brewery House' (EHER 36557) is extant – a fine red brick, clay tiled roofed Georgian house in the cellar of which hand bottling was undertaken. The facade of the house is in three bays with a bay window either side of a decorative doorway. It is of three storeys and the rear range is mainly rendered, but with some weather-boarding on the south side and under a slate roof. There are two out-buildings and the boundary wall to Lower Street is of flint and brick. Malting also took place in the village, there having been at least two malthouses of which that at Stoney Common is extant and was assessed as part of the Essex County Council Malthouse Survey (EHER 15275). <1>