The Maltings

The Maltings is a brewery maltings dating to approximately 1870-80, situated on Henry Street and Station Street in Ross-on-Wye. The building is constructed of buff brick with black brick dressings, particularly noticeable on window lintels, arches of recessed brick panels, and the impost band above those arches. It has a moulded eaves cornice and a plain tiled roof. A raised gable is present at the left end of the Henry Street front, topped with a square, louvred cowl over a hip, likely covering the kiln. A similar cowl over hip is found at the end of the Station Street front, and various louvred openings are visible on the roofs as outlets for the drying floors. The Maltings is four storeys high, with an attic space in the gable along the Henry Street front. The facade, which extends 17 bays, features 3-storey, round-arched recessed brick panels raised over a single-storey rendered basement. All openings are of a uniform size, except the doors, and feature segmental brick heads and rubbed brick cills. Doorways are positioned on the first floor of the fourth, ninth, and fourteenth bays, with boarded doors except in the fourth bay, which is blank. The five bays on the left-hand side have all openings blank, with the exception of a gable opening containing a boarded and glazed door with bars. This building formerly functioned as the maltings for the Alton Court Brewery.