Brewery Chimney - Silk Street, London, UK
N 51° 31.244 W 000° 05.541
30U E 701716 N 5711743
This chimney sits atop a building on the east side of Silk (formerly Whitcross) Street in London.
Waymark Code: WMEYKM
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 07/23/2012
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The chimney sits on top of the former
Whitbread Brewery just to the south of the junction of Silk Street and Chiswell
Street. The chimney's dimensions are rought ten feet by ten feet by 30 feet
high. The lower half is mainly constructed from brick and the top half from
carved stone. The building has undergone some refurbishment in recent years thus
the stonework looks so clean for a chimney.
The building is Grade II listed and the
entry at the English Heritage website (visit
link) makes mention of the chimney:
"Brewery building. Dated 1904 over
left-hand ground-floor opening. Red brick and granite, dressings of stone, roof
of lead. Five storeys, five-window range. Granite base to ground floor with
segmental-arched opening to left and four flat-arched windows; cornice. First
and second floors framed by six giant Doric pilasters supporting bracketed
dentil cornice with panelled frieze; the windows themselves originally
flat-arched to first floor and round-arched to second under round arches with
moulded stucco impost blocks and archivolts; except in the right-hand bay which
has a scrolled bracket additionally below the impost block; three second-floor
windows to left now flat-arched. Attic storey with flat-arched windows deeply
recesed under cornice with engaged Doric antae between; late C20 lead-covered
dormer runs the length of the roof between end gables; brewery chimney to
south with stone band, panelled frieze and bracketed
cornice."