The Malthouse Surgery is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1986. Malt-house.

The Malthouse Surgery

WRENN ID
stony-trefoil-lake
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Shropshire
Constituency
Shrewsbury MP: Julia Buckley (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 March 1986
Type
Malt-house
Address
The Malthouse Surgery, Minsterley
OS grid reference
SJ 373 050
Coordinates
52.63996, -2.92792
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Malthouse Surgery is a former malt-house that has been converted into a veterinary surgery, likely dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed from roughly squared and coursed rubblestone, with red brick dressings and a rendered south side. The building features a hipped corrugated iron roof sloping to the south and is oriented approximately north-south, with a polygonal end to the south.

The structure stands three storeys tall, with raised brick eaves and a parapeted gable end on the north side. The west front includes three small boarded openings on the second floor beneath the eaves, with a gabled semi-dormered boarded hoist door located between the first and second openings from the right, and a blocked small opening to the left. On the first floor, there are four two-light segmental-headed wooden casements, with the second from the left being a 20th-century replacement of a loading door. The ground floor features three two-light segmental-headed wooden casements, along with a segmental-headed boarded door positioned between the first and second casements from the left. Additionally, there is a two-light wooden casement in the polygonal end to the right.

To the left, there is a two-storey addition that slightly projects from the main building, showcasing a toothed brick eaves cornice and a parapeted gable end. This addition has a small first-floor boarded opening with a brick relieving arch. At the rear, the ground is built up to the first-floor level. This malt-house, along with the former maltster's house to the east, represents a complete example of a small rural maltings.

Local climate

The Malthouse Surgery receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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