Chiswell Street is in the

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. It includes several buildings listed by

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Location

The street, in

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, runs east-west and forms part of the B100 road. At the west end it becomes Beech Street, with Silk Street running from the south of that junction, and

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heading north. At its east end it meets

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. The western junction marks the boundary of the

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with the London Borough of Islington: Whitecross Street and Chiswell Street (north and east) are in Islington, while Beech Street and Silk Street (west and south) are in the City.

Whitbread Brewery

The southern block between Silk Street and Milton Street (once

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) is occupied by the Grade II-listed Whitbread Brewery building. In 1750, Samuel Whitbread consolidated production from two smaller breweries, the Goat Brewhouse, where

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was produced, and a brewery in Brick Lane used to produce

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and

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, on a much larger site. Considerable expansion followed, and beer was brewed here for 225 years, until Whitbread Brewery closed in 1976. Part of the complex is now The Brewery, a conference and events venue, and part of it the Montcalm London City Hotel.

Other buildings

The Jugged Hare pub on the corner with Silk Street is also Grade II listed.

Notable residents

William Caslon's

Caslon Type Foundry The Caslon type foundry was a type foundry in London which cast and sold metal type. It was founded by the punchcutting, punchcutter and typefounder William Caslon, William Caslon I, probably in 1720. For most of its history it was based at Chiswe ...

was based on Chiswell Street for almost exactly two hundred years.

References

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