Monument record 1160/86/1 - Site of Victoria Brewery, Kettering Road

A 19th-century brewery located between Kettering Road and St Michaels Road. Labelled as a 'Last Works' on the 1938 OS map. Now demolished

{2}Youil Brothers & Company were brewing here in 1870 and continued until shortly after 1890. By 1894, Major-Lucas & Co. were in business at Victoria Brewery, 29 Kettering Road, as brewers, maltsters and hop factors. In 1903 Walker & Soames were given as brewers at Victoria Brewery, Northampton as well as at Towcester and 'The Brewery', Buckby Wharf (they were at the latter places by 1896 and 1898 respectively). There are references to Walker & Soames at the Victoria Brewery until 1933-34. The main brewery premises are now occupied by the British American Last Works with entrance from St. Michaels Road. The original entrance from 29 Kettering Road is now a car showroom. The tallest building is almost square in plan, four storeys high of brick with a hipped slate roof which formerly carried some embellishment above the ridge. On the west side; are signs of a porch for an external hoist and bricked-up doorways at'several floor levels. On the east side, the 'tower' building is joined by a smaller brick building, of two storeys, whose slate roof, with the outside (east) end gabled, is surmounted with a louvred wooden ventilator, also with gable-ended slate
roof.

<1> STARMER G., List of Industrial Sites in Northamptonshire (Various, Including N.R.I.M.), (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN1444.

<2> Starmer G., 1970, Breweries in Northamptonshire (Article). SNN111859.

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