Acacia House

SJ 3605-3705 19/81

MINSTERLEY C.P. MINSTERLEY Acacia House

GV II

Probably maltster's house, now house. Early C19. Red brick on coursed rubblestone plinth; hipped slate roof. 2 storeys. Deep bracketed eaves; brick ridge stacks off-centre to north and south. East front: at right angles to road; 4 windows; 16-pane glazing bar sashes with gauged brick heads; ground-floor windows have architraves with bracketed cills, and bracketed blind boxes with ceramic-tile decoration and cast iron window boxes to first-floor windows above; pair of French casements between first and second windows from left have architrave, bracketed blind box with ceramic-tile decoration and cast iron cresting; 6-panelled door off-centre to right (lower 2 panels flush and top panels raised and fielded) with radial fanlight, panelled reveals and soffit, and doorcase consisting of convex reeded pilasters with paterae above, and bracketed open triangular pediment. Left-hand return front with first-floor painted imitation glazing bar sash and basement with segmental-headed boarded window to right and boarded door to left. Slightly later (see straight joint at rear) 2-storey lower addition to south: hipped roof with deep bracketed eaves and integral brick lateral stack at rear; one bay to front; glazing bar sashes with gauged brick heads, that on ground floor with boarded shutters; segmental headed boarded basement door to right with window to left. Rear: 4 first-floor windows and 2 ground-floor windows, that to right with raised and fielded panelled shutters (some evidence of refenestration, see straight joints); central 6-panelled door with parallel reveals, radial fanlight, and doorcase with panelled pilasters, and tall brackets supporting cornice. Interior not inspected. Acacia House and the former malt-house (qv) to the west form a complete example of a small rural maltings.

Listing NGR: SJ3732305086