Barn and Part of Former House Approximately 4 Metres to South East of the Malsters Tap is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 April 1986. Barn and house.
Barn and Part of Former House Approximately 4 Metres to South East of the Malsters Tap
- WRENN ID
- sunken-stair-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 April 1986
- Type
- Barn and house
- OS grid reference
- SO 506 950
- Coordinates
- 52.55133, -2.7296
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a barn and part of a former house, now functioning as a barn, located approximately 4 metres southeast of The Maltsters Tap. The structure dates from around 1600 and includes an attached 17th-century barn. It features a weatherboarded timber frame resting on a sandstone rubble plinth, with part of the house rebuilt in coursed yellow sandstone rubble at the front and a plain tile roof.
The barn consists of three bays, with one bay from the old house on the right. The framing includes square panels with long straight tension braces. There is a truncated dressed grey sandstone stack positioned off-centre to the right of the ridge. The barn has a central boarded door and a boarded loft door above, while the part of the old house to the right includes a loft opening and a small ground-floor window, along with a boarded door to the left.
The right-hand end wall, which was formerly an internal wall, features a ground-floor fireplace with chamfered dressed sandstone reveals and a chamfered wooden lintel. Above this, there is a chamfered former ceiling beam with mortices from former joists, and an exposed tie-beam truss with raking struts and lath and plaster infill.
Inside, the barn has tie-beam trusses with raking struts, a collar and tie-beam end truss with queen struts, and single butt purlins with wind braces. The single domestic bay is part of a former two-bay hall range that was once attached to the farmhouse, The Maltsters Tap. One bay of the hall range has been demolished, separating the house and barn.
Local climate
Barn and Part of Former House Approximately 4 Metres to South East of the Malsters Tap receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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