William Bradford (architect)

William Bradford (1845-1919) was a prolific architect of breweries. Born in 1845 in Devon, son of Robert Bradford 1818-1875 (a builder). Responsible for building or altering 70 breweries his first commission was a small addition to the "Hope Brewery" in East Grinstead (1879). Died at home in Surbiton on 2 February 1919.

Harveys brewery as seen from the Cliffe Bridge in Lewes, East Sussex, July 2006

He married Hannah Laura Barrat (1848-1893) on 23 April 1872 in St Pancras, London England.

Hook Norton brewery
Shipstones Brewery
Tolly Cobbold Cliff Brewery
Mansfield Brewery

William Bradford (1845-1919) worked in the brewing industry from the late 1860s and established his architectural practice at 40 King William Street, London EC4, in 1879, moving to Carlton Chambers, 12 Regent Street, London W1, in early 1882. Bradford's works included building or altering over 70 breweries and maltings throughout the country, although the majority were in the south of England. His practice concentrated almost entirely on breweries, maltings and ancillary buildings, notably tower breweries, eventually arriving at a distinctive decorative style, featuring ironwork and a picturesque roof line, that is easily identifiable today. The practice was known as William Bradford & Sons by 1905. The firm continued under his sons, W.Stovin-Bradford and J. W. Bradford, and designed several lavishly ornamented public houses and was last heard of in 1946.[1]

W.Stovin-Bradford presented a paper on the architecture of breweries at the White Horse Hotel, Congreave Street, Birmingham on 21 January 1932. Born in 1877 he died during the war in 1940.[2] One of his sons was Frank Stovin-Bradford[3]

William Bradford was the architect of an unexecuted new brewery which was proposed for a site in Ashbourne Road, Limerick, in 1895 and of another on a site next to the railway station in Dundalk, Co. Louth, for the Great Northern Brewery Co. in 1896.[4] The brewery in Limerick was abandoned for economic reasons after objections by the local Redemptorists.[5] It is unclear if William Bradford was the architect of the Great Northern Brewery in Dundalk which was built in 1896. A contemporary picture of the brewery appears to match the style of other breweries.[6]

Breweries and buildings that he is responsible for are:

  • Hope Brewery East Grinsted (1879)[7]
  • Salters of Rickmansworth around 1888
Erection a new 40-quarter plant, as well as enlargement of the existing premises[8]
  • The Bottle House for Camden Brewery (1900-1901) Grade II Listed Hawley Crescent Camden London[9]
  • Prince of Wales Brewery, Nottingham (1891) Grade II Listed Alpine Street, Basford, Nottingham[10]
  • Swan Brewery, Fulham (1882)[11][12]
  • Shipstones Star Brewery, New Basford 1901 Shipstones Brewery
  • Castle Brewery, Newark 1889-90 Grade II Listed Albert Street, Newark[13]
  • Mansfield Brewery 1907 Demolished 2008
  • Cheltenham Brewery 1898
Tower still remains. Henrietta Street, Cheltenham[14]
Hook Norton, Oxfordshire[15]
  • Wells Brewery, Watford 1902[16]
  • The Unicorn Brewery Ipswich[17]
  • Tolly Cobbold Brewery Ipswich (1896) Grade II listed
  • Albion Brewery
Only Grade II listed brewery engineers house stands 27a Mile End Rd, London[18][19]
  • Harveys Bridge Wharf Brewery 1882 Lewes Harveys Brewery[20]
  • Courage Alton Brewery Hampshire[21]
  • Lamb Brewery Chiswick (1901)[22]
  • Hanson Brewery 1890 Hanson's Brewery was completed, adjacent to the Hardy's site, with a 6-storey brewery tower as its centrepiece.[23]
  • Old Brewery Hertford (1891)[24]
  • George Ware Brewery Frant (1893)[25]
  • Camerons Brewery Lion Brewery, Hartlepool addition of a new maltings in 1883[26]
  • Teignworthy Brewery Ltd, The Maltings[27]
  • Tucker's Maltings, Newton Abbot, Devon (1900)[28]
  • McArthur's Warehouse maltings, Gasferry Road, Bristol (1897)[29][30]
  • H Luker 25-quarter Brewery, Southend (1891)[31]
  • Hartleys Brewery, West Cowick 1892 (Brewers Journal 1892)[32]
  • Wooldridge & Co Tottenham Brewery (1892)[33]
  • Magee Marshall & Co Brewery, Bolton 1893 (Brewers Journal)
  • Canon Brewery Clerkenwell 1894[34]
  • Millwall Working Mens Club (1900)[35]
  • Royal Brewery Brentford 1899 Alteration and additions (BJ 1899 p215)[36]
  • Phipps Bridge Street Brewery, Northampton. extension 1905[37][38][39][40]

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  2. W.Stovin-Bradford (1932). "Architecture of Breweries". Journal of the Institute of Brewing. 38 (2): 190–194. doi:10.1002/j.2050-0416.1932.tb05403.x.
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  27. Lynn Pearson and Ray Anderson. "Gazetteer of breweries in England operating pre-1940".CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
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  30. "Bristol Archaeological Society".
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  32. "Cowick History".
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  37. "Bridge Street Brewery".
  38. "The Nottinghamshire Heritage Gateway > Themes > Brewing > Structural". nottsheritagegateway.org.uk.
  39. Jonathan Glancey. "Jonathan Glancey on the decline of the British brewery". the Guardian.
  40. "The Maltings of Former Hardy and Hanson Brewery". British Listed Buildings.
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