Conservation specialist Pritchard Architecture has completed the conversion of a historic but neglected naval gunpowder store in Hampshire into a brewery and bar that salutes the site’s former heritage.

Pritchard was commissioned to turn the grade II-listed E-Magazine building in Gosport into the venue by Portsmouth Naval Base Property Trust and the Powder Monkey Brewing Co – named after the men and women who carried gunpowder from the site to ships nearby.

The project, which was supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Historic England, has resulted in a number of carefully-designed interventions at the building, located within Gosport’s 17^th century ramparts and the wider Priddy’s Hard Conservation Area.

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