The Railway Maltings is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 January 1982. Maltings.
The Railway Maltings
- WRENN ID
- guardian-rubblework-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 January 1982
- Type
- Maltings
- Address
- The Railway Maltings, Lamarsh Hill, Bures Hamlet
- OS grid reference
- TL 902 340
- Coordinates
- 51.97212, 0.76832
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Railway Maltings is a maltings building dated 1851, currently being converted into housing as of April 1984. It is constructed of red brick with gault brick dressings and features slate roofs. The building has an H-plan layout, with a south crosswing facing the road that includes a square oast house at the southern end of the middle range. The crosswings are two storeys high, while the middle range is three storeys, with all roofs aligned. The crosswings are divided into three bays by pilasters with gault brick dressings, and the middle range is similarly divided into eleven bays, with matching pilasters at the corners. Once completed, the road elevation will feature a six-window range of 20th-century casements, two 20th-century doors, and a low-pitched roof with two skylights. There is a date-stone located on the upper floor. The oast house is topped with a steep pyramidal roof that has a flat top.
Local climate
The Railway Maltings sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% 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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