Malthouse Farmhouse

Malthouse Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from around 1700, with a 19th-century extension and restoration work completed in 1983. It's constructed of coursed squared coal measures sandstone with ashlar dressings, projecting quoins to the front elevation, and coved eaves with moulded copings and kneelers. The roof is covered in Welsh slate, and the property has a central brick stack. The layout is a T-shape, incorporating a baffle entry and a stair tower to the rear.

The north elevation is two storeys high and five bays wide, originally featuring 2-light flush mullioned windows, which have largely been replaced with 2-light horizontal sliding sash windows set within projecting surrounds, and linked at the head with plain bands. The central doorway has a moulded surround, a keyblock above the door, and a two-panel door. Windows on the rear and side elevations have projecting lintels that act as dripmoulds. A mullioned and transomed window is located on the first-floor stair landing. An east wing, lower in height and consisting of two bays, was completely remodelled in 1984; it originally contained some 2-light 18th-century mullioned windows.

Inside, a principal hearth on the ground floor’s east side features a massive flat lintel and a quoined surround. The entire building was refurbished in 1983/84. Malthouse Farmhouse represents an intermediate stage in architectural development, bridging the decline of the central stack plan form typical of the 16th and 17th centuries and the subsequent emergence of formal, symmetrical elevations in vernacular architecture in north Derbyshire.