Sileby Maltings May 2014

[mookster]

Final site from mine and Landie's roadtrip, after a few disappointing fails we waved goodbye to Sheffield and after a brief bit of googling found this place so decided to pop in for a look on the way home. A small site but a lovely one at that!

Sadly half demolished now, and the buildings left are going to be converted soon. Still, it made a real nice positive end to the trip after the previous fails, on a beautiful May evening with the sounds of a pub band playing next door and some lovely sunshine as well.

The complex is thought to have been developed in the 1860's when William Sharpe established a small brewery to the rear of the Duke of York public house on the High Street in Sileby. The brewery was enlarged in the 1880s with the addition of the floor maltings and the Union Room, equipped, according to sale details of 1906 with `6 sets of unions with ‘attemporators’ in casks and boxes on the Burton principle' The Burton principle was a reference to a recirculating fermentation system known as the Burton Union, practised in Burton-upon-Trent breweries from the 1830s. The Union system consisted of a row of casks connected to a common trough by way of a series of pipes. The purpose of the Union system was to allow excess yeast foam to be expelled from the casks. Any expelled beer could be separated from the wasted yeast, allowing it to flow back into the casks to continue fermentation. The brewery remained operational until the late 1920s, but the floor maltings remained in use for a longer period. The 1906 sale plan and details depict the fully developed brewery complex with stabling, bottling plant, cooperage and storage buildings as well as the main process buildings which survive today. It is a grade 2 listed building.

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[shaddam]

Oh that's different, cheers

 

[Stussy]

Nice set of pics Mooks, not sure i've seen this one before, great share

 

[mookster]

Nice set of pics Mooks, not sure i've seen this one before, great share

I had no idea it existed until Landie found an old thread on another forum! It's a really pretty little place and the smell of the wood on the top floor is sublime (I'm sad like that...)

 

[Lara]

Like the look of this, nice and different

 

[skeleton key]

Nice work Mooks and a good recovery mate as saw your messages popping up on the day.

Dirty Mail sell outs closing locations.

Nice shots

 

[Fatpanda]

nice stuff man from the look of the building outside i expected it to be trashed as hell but wouldnt mind a trip there myself as i ive nort too far any news on weather its still there ?

 

[mookster]

nice stuff man from the look of the building outside i expected it to be trashed as hell but wouldnt mind a trip there myself as i ive nort too far any news on weather its still there ?

I went again about six months after this post went up with another member intending to show him around but found the place being converted, so I imagine it's not a viable explore any more sadly.