The Malthouse is a Grade II listed building in the St. Helens local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 May 1975. Malthouse. 1 related planning application.
The Malthouse
- WRENN ID
- unlit-foundation-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St. Helens
- Constituency
- St Helens North MP: David Baines (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 May 1975
- Type
- Malthouse
- Address
- The Malthouse, Rainford Road, Windle, WA10 6DJ
- OS grid reference
- SJ 494 968
- Coordinates
- 53.46572, -2.76282
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Malthouse is a building said to date from 1777, featuring the initials of William Cross and his wife. It may have originated as an earlier stone barn that was altered and extended in the 18th century. The structure has stone base courses, parts of stone walls, and a stone floor, while the remainder is made of brick. It stands two storeys high with a basement, some brick floors, and a stone flag roof supported by very thick beams. There are blocked round-arched openings and a long round-arched niche for warehouse entrances on two levels. The windows are small and segmental-headed. Inside, the ceilings are very low with exposed beams, except for the top room under the roof. The lower treads of the staircase are made of stone. The building is currently disused. Nos 53 to 59 (odd) form a group with the Malthouse.
Local climate
The Malthouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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