The Malt House

The Malt House is a house dating from the mid to late 17th century, with alterations and additions made in the 19th and 20th centuries. It features a timber frame with painted brick nogging, and parts have been rebuilt using sandstone rubble and painted brick, with the rear pebbledashed. The roof is covered in plain tiles. The structure consists of one framed bay and a gabled flush cross-wing with two short bays on the left. The framing includes square panels with long straight tension braces, and the trusses are exposed in the gables, featuring two collars and v-struts, although only one collar survives in the right-hand gable end.

The house is two storeys high, with a ridge stack located just off-centre to the right. This stack has a dressed sandstone base with a chamfered offset leading to a 19th-century brick top stage. The front has three windows; there are paired late 19th-century small-paned casements on the left and a late 20th-century casement on the right. Additionally, there is a small staircase window off-centre to the right and late 20th-century ground-floor casements. A late 19th-century lean-to brick porch is set back to the left and features a segmental-headed nail-studded boarded door. At the rear, there is a twin-gabled one-storey and attic wing.

Inside, the house has chamfered and stopped beams, open fireplaces, and some 17th-century panelling in the cross-wing. There is evidence suggesting that the house may have originally extended further to the right, indicated by sockets in the floor beam in the gable end.