19th century maltings and brewery, Dunmow Brewery, North Street (EHER 15104)

Site of 19th century brewery complex.

Original HER entry merged with NRHE data import: 1971. Survey. Site of brewery complex, surveyed in 1971, originally flanked by the Brewery House (no 26) and a public house (no 30), both of which still exist and are listed Grade II. The rest of the complex has been destroyed to make way for an access road and estate. <1> October 1973. Survey. Site of brewery built in about 1770, adjacent to the King's Head public house. Closed in 1967 and since demolished. Recorded by NRIM. Photographed. <2> 1985. Survey. A timber-framed building, the earliest phase of which appears to date from the fifteenth century. It comprises a cross-wing of 2 bays and storeys in height, jettied to both front and rear (east and west) and a hall range the original extent of which could not be ascertained. The cross-wing appears to be earlier than the hall range. The building was later converted into a maltings, possibly in the early-mid nineteenth century. <3> 2002. Survey. All that remains on this, the site of the former Dunmow Brewery, are what were structures either side of the North Street entrance to the site – malt store on the north and bottle store on the south – the Brewery House and the tap house, The King’s Head. However when in full operation it had a number of component parts including the brewhouse, counting house, cooper’s shop, stables and water tower all of which have now been demolished to make way for residential development. The brewery was founded in 1803, Thomas Alliston and Richard Randall being the proprietors. Richard Randall continued after Alliston’s death and was joined in 1834 by William Randall. In 1911 the company merged with Dunmow rivals, Webb and Gibbons, the first of a number of mergers throughout the 20th century culminating in acquisition by Charrington United Breweries in 1965. Brewing ceased soon afterwards and demolition took place in 1975. Some malt was produced in the nearby North Street maltings. <4> See also: <5>