Plough Maltings

Plough Maltings is a former maltings building, now a workshop, constructed between 1899 and 1902 by Herbert Couchman. The structure is made of red brick and features a Welsh slate roof. It is a long, two-storey building with ten windows and a three-span roof, with kilns positioned at right angles to the left and an accumulator tower to the right.

The maltings have round-headed cast iron windows with radiating glazing bars on the ground floor, and pivoted windows with cambered heads on the first floor. The kilns include a ramp leading up to a square-headed door on the right, two windows, and corner buttresses. There is a 20th-century addition in the center, and the kilns have a two-span hipped roof with ridge ventilators. The left side of the building has three windows and ten buttresses.

The tower has a rectangular plan with one recessed panel on the front and two on the sides. It features a tall round-headed window with a round opening above, and a parapet with brick coping raised at the corners. The right side of the maltings has three gables with scattered fenestration, including two tall round-headed windows to the left of 20th-century sliding doors, and another square-headed opening with a 20th-century roller shutter to the right, flanked by round-headed windows.

There is a weatherboarded hoist in the valley to the right of the tower, which has one window in its gabled front and two on the side. The central gable of the maltings features a round window. Another hoist on the first floor of the right gable has a gabled canopy on cast iron brackets over a segmental-headed boarded door, flanked by windows with segmental heads. A platform on cast iron brackets has a lattice balustrade.

Inside, the kilns retain a perforated floor. These maltings are significant as they were built to house box drums that turned the grain as it germinated. Although the original equipment has been removed, the pattern of fenestration indicates the building's former use, with many more windows on the northern side, as ventilation was not necessary for the traditional type of malting floor.