The Maltings

The Maltings is a house that dates back to the early 17th century, with an extension added in the 18th century. It is timber framed, plastered, and has a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The building has three bays facing north, featuring a central stack that creates a lobby entrance. The 18th-century rear extension forms a T-plan, with a single-storey extension in the right rear corner and a catslide roof extending from this rear addition. On the left rear, there is a larger single-storey extension with a slate roof, also forming a catslide with the rear extension. Adjacent to this is a 19th-century stack and a bread oven.

The house is two storeys high and has a two-window range of 20th-century casement windows, along with a central 20th-century half-glazed door. There are three octagonal shafts with moulded bases that have been rebuilt above. The left side of the building jetties out, supported by a carved bracket shaped like a grotesque figure. Inside, there are chamfered beams with lamb's tongue stops, with transverse beams in the left bay and axial beams in the right bay, complemented by plain joists of vertical section.

On the ground floor, to the left of the stack, there is a large wood-burning hearth with a cambered and chamfered mantel beam featuring lamb's tongue stops. The hearth to the right of the stack has a depressed brick arch, with splays in the rear angles and two narrow vents separated by a chamfered brick pier, which is a rare feature. On the first floor, to the left of the stack, there is a smaller hearth with a chamfered depressed arch and jambs, which are plastered. Arched braces are trenched inside the visible studs, and the frame is mainly plastered. In the left upper room, there is a blocked window of an early glazed type with one ovolo mullion at the front and a similar window with two mullions at the rear. Other windows may be concealed within the plaster. The bread oven is intact and includes a cast iron door.