The Malt House

SJ 4800-4900; 9/73

LONGNOR C.P., LONGNOR, The Malt House

II

House. Mid to late C17 with C19 and C20 alterations and additions. Timber framed with painted brick nogging, partly rebuilt in sandstone rubble and painted brick, pebbledashed at rear; plain tile roof. One framed bay with gabled flush cross-wing of two short bays to left. Framing: square panels with long straight tension braces; trusses exposed in gables with two collars and v-struts (one collar only surviving in right-hand gable end). Two storeys. Ridge stack just off-centre to right consisting of dressed sandstone base with chamfered offset to C19 brick top stage. 3-window front; paired first-floor late C19 small-paned casements to left and late C20 casement to right; small staircase window off-centre to right, and C20 ground-floor casements; late C19 lean-to brick porch set back to left with segmental-headed nail-studded boarded door. Twin- gabled one storey and attic wing at rear. INTERIOR: chamfered and stopped beams; open fireplaces some C17 panelling in cross-wing. It is possible that the house formerly extended further to the right (see sockets in floor beam in gable end).

Listing NGR: SJ4914400704