Conservation Area: Greenalls Brewery Conservation Area (193)

Greenalls Brewery Conservation Area is located to the south of Warrington Town Centre sited to the south of the River Mersey and to the north of the Manchester Ship Canal. The conservation area encompasses a Victorian Brewery built by the Greenall family, the brewhouse, a malt building, an eighteenth-century house originally built for the Greenall family, a public house, and smaller domestic properties on China Lane associated with the workers of the brewery. When viewed from the Manchester Ship Canal the large red brick brewery buildings form an impressive gateway to the town with their Victorian ornamentation and clock tower. The whole of the conservation area is considered to represent a fine collection of different buildings in terms of age, design, and function yet all with a single reason for being, namely the brewery. The architectural quality of the buildings is noted with several of the buildings being designated as listed buildings. The area was designated as a conservation area in 2001 because of the special role played in the history of the town and the character and appearance of the site which reflects these early developments of the brewing industry within Warrington.