The Maltsters Tap

The Maltsters Tap is a farmhouse, now a house, dating from around 1600, with alterations and additions made in the late 18th century and 19th century. It features a timber frame with plastered infill, and parts have been rebuilt and extended using coursed yellow and brown sandstone rubble, grey sandstone rubble with grey sandstone quoins, and red brick window heads. Some areas are pebbledashed, and the roofs are covered with plain tiles. The building has an irregular plan, with a flush cross-wing from circa 1600, an 18th-century range to the right, and later additions at the rear.

The framing consists of square panels, originally four from the sole plate to the wall plate, with parallel diagonal struts creating lozenge patterns. The house has two storeys, with an integral brick end stack to the right, an integral lateral brick stack to the left, and a later 20th-century brick stack at the rear. The front has three windows: three-light 19th-century wooden casements and a central two-light wooden casement on the first floor, all except the left-hand first-floor window featuring segmental heads. The central entrance has a 20th-century boarded door with a gabled porch.

Inside, the left-hand ground-floor front room has a chamfered cross-beamed ceiling and a large open fireplace. There is a square-panelled timber-framed internal cross-wall between the original 1600 range and the 18th-century addition, which was likely a former external wall. The house used to have a two-bay hall range to the left, which was attached to a barn. One bay of the hall range still exists attached to the barn, while the other has been demolished, likely during the 18th-century extension of the house to the right. The rear part of the building was formerly a separate malt-house.