Shepherd Neame brewhouse, Faversham
Restoring the Brewhouse at Shepherd Neame's Faversham Brewery, the oldest working brewery in the UK, without affecting the brewery's operational capacity.
The job, as it ran
The brief
Shepherd Neame, a family-run brewer, asked us to restore its Brewhouse and bring back key architectural features that had been lost. The building dates back to 1698, and records show commercial brewing on the site since 1573.
The challenge
The brewery had to keep brewing throughout. The work also had to keep the heritage look and feel of the building while bringing it up to modern-day standards and regulations.
What we did
Major structural repairs through to new internal and external cladding, with a heritage look and feel throughout. Working with Marley Alutec, we were the first company to use their heritage roofline system, the Victorian-style 102 Tudor range. Over the same period we converted parts of the historic buildings for modern brewing: yeast propagation cold rooms, which meant removing mass structural walls; micro-brewery enabling works in the Guinness store area; and a major re-roofing and external refurbishment in locally sourced, heritage-approved materials, from traditional handmade Kent clay tiles to like-for-like Crittall windows.
The outcome
A full refurbishment of the Brewhouse, carried out without affecting the brewery's operational capacity. Our Managing Director, Gary Gillett, talked through the project with Heritage & Traditional Building in April 2025.
The finished rooms
Photographed on completion of the re-roof. More photographs of the brewhouse work are being added.
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