Number 4 Mess Room at Bass Maltings is a Grade II listed building in the North Kesteven local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 July 2001. Mess room.

Number 4 Mess Room at Bass Maltings

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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Kesteven
Constituency
Sleaford and North Hykeham MP: Dr Caroline Johnson (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 July 2001
Type
Mess room
Address
Number 4 Mess Room at Bass Maltings, Mareham Lane, Sleaford
OS grid reference
TF 074 451
Coordinates
52.9932, -0.4002
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Number 4 Mess Room at Bass Maltings is a single-storey building constructed around 1900, designed by A. Couchman. It is made of red brick and features a hipped plain tile roof with a central brick chimney stack, which is flanked by lead ventilators. The building has a deep blue chamfered plinth. The main front includes four glazing bar sash windows, all of which are currently boarded up. There are also single doorways and single sashes on each side, which are likewise boarded. This mess room is an important part of the nationally significant maltings complex.

Local climate

Number 4 Mess Room at Bass Maltings sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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