Harvey's Brewery Chimney - Cliffe Street, Lewes, UK
Posted by: Groundspeak Regular Member Master Mariner
N 50° 52.498 E 000° 01.028
31U E 290150 N 5640160
Harveys Brewery, founded in 1790, is located in the East Sussex town of Lewes. The brewery is enhanced by the presence of a brewery shop in Cliffe Street. A tall, brick chimney stands on the brewery site.
Waymark Code: WMRR5X
Location: South East England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 07/28/2016
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member SearchN
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The chimney is on brewery owned property so access to its base is not possible. The co-ordinates are for a car-park near the brewery from where the chimney can be seen. It can also be seen from the two nearby bridges that span the River Ouse to the west of the brewery site.

Harvey's Brewery has several buildings, including the chimney, that are Grade II* listed with the entry at the Historic England website advising about the chimney:

Tall octagonal brick tapering chimney in angle; the top third has been rebuilt with an oversailing cornice. 11 iron straps surround the chimney which sits on a stone bolection-moulded plinth.

Wikipedia has an article about Harveys Brewery that tells us:

Harveys Brewery (Harvey & Son (Lewes) Ltd.) is a brewery in Lewes, the county town of East Sussex, England.

As of 2015, Harvey's estate includes 48 tied houses, mostly in Sussex. It sells and distributes its main product Sussex Best, a bitter, primarily to a greater number of other pubs, licensed sports and social clubs mostly in England.

It was under the management of John Harvey (1784–1862) that the Bridge Wharf Brewery was established on its present site by the River Ouse, overlooking long-standing crossing: Cliffe Bridge.

In 1880 part of the original Georgian brewery was rebuilt: the Tower and Brew House visible for example from Cliffe Bridge. This is an example of a country brewery with a façade in a rustic Neo-Gothic design of the Victorian era, a listed building at Grade II*.[1] Behind it stands another half: the Georgian fermenting room, cellars and Vat House. The fermenting room, Brew House and cellars have not changed in layout and dimensions, although reinforced and their contents have evolved. The Vat House was converted and expanded into the modern bottling process.

In 1984, a second brewing line was completed doubling production capacity from 25,000 to 50,000 barrels a year. The building for this plant has been added in front of the Tower in a similar Gothic style, such as an arched ironwork window.

Harveys is an independent family company: Harvey & Son (Lewes) Ltd. The seventh generation of John Harvey's descendants are among directors.

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