Nitrovit Limited is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 April 1985. Maltings.
Nitrovit Limited
- WRENN ID
- muffled-sandstone-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 April 1985
- Type
- Maltings
- Address
- Nitrovit Limited, Maltings Lane, Witham
- OS grid reference
- TL 822 145
- Coordinates
- 51.79985, 0.64155
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nitrovit Limited is a maltings and maltings office built around 1700. It features red brick with blue header diaper work and has corrugated asbestos roofs. The builder may have been Colling of Witham. The building is two storeys high and consists of a double range with a kiln and office at the northeast end.
The southeast elevation has a four-window range, with ground floor windows that have segmental heads and blue header decoration, although some are now partly infilled. Above these are two-light timber louvres over later small pane metal windows. The building has a moulded brick plinth. The office elevation on the southeast has two similar first floor windows and a ground floor door. The northwest elevation displays a five-window range in an irregular pattern, with off-centre first floor loading doors. The ground floor features four windows and three doors, also arranged irregularly and with similar detailing to the southeast elevation.
Inside, the ground floor plan retains an original central wall that continues through to the second floor, featuring original ventilator arches. It includes original stop-chamfered tie beams and timber supporting columns, along with some notable 19th century fluted cast iron columns. The first floor has an original double range roof made of joggled framed and pegged side purlins, which are pegged at the ridge, and a centre tenoned top plate scarf with early wrought iron over straps.
Local climate
Nitrovit Limited sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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