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Northgate Street, DEVIZES, SN10 1JT

The early 18th century building on the right at 21 Northgate Street was Grade II* listed in 1954.

Formerly a Congregational church, set back from the south side of Northgate Street. Viewed in October 2014, when the only name to be seen (the one in the title) was on the metal entrance gates. This building is not shown as a place of worship on maps, so it looks like it is now in secular use.

Northgate Brewery, close to the centre of Devizes, is home to Wadworth & Co Ltd - one of the few regional brewers to have avoided take overs and still be producing the fine beers it has done since Victorian times. The company was founded by Henry Alfred Wadworth in 1875, although the business subsequently passed to his partner John Smith Bartholomew and is now in the fourth generation of ownership by the Bartholomew family. The building dates from 1885 and is a fine example of a tower brewery; it was designed by Henry Wadsworth himself.

This brewery has now closed and the engine is to be relocated to a visitor centre on the ground floor as its location is to be redeveloped. The business has relocated to a smaller modern brewery. Horizontal single cylinder engine by G. Adlam & Sons, Bristol. c1900. Stopped 1935. Preserved and was workable but had not run recently. Cylinder c12" x 20" with a simple slide valve. Steam pressure 100 psi, 100 rpm, 25 horsepower. Flywheel 7' diameter.

A substantial mid-Georgian house of red brick with stone dressings (including stringcourses) which seems to be the norm in Devizes. The bay on the right is later. It was a coaching inn in the 1770s, later it served as the judge's official residence (it lies opposite the former Assize Court Image]) and is currently solicitors' offices. Grade II* listed.

A blue plaque on the Northgate Street building shows FORMER KINGS ARMS COACHING INN 1766. Grade II* listed in 1954. Now (2014) in use as solicitors' offices.