The Malting is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 April 1965. House.
The Malting
- WRENN ID
- sacred-thatch-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 April 1965
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Malting, Ford Street, Aldham
- OS grid reference
- TL 920 268
- Coordinates
- 51.90734, 0.79107
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Malting is a 16th century or earlier house that forms an L-plan. It is timber framed and plastered, standing two storeys high with a gabled crosswing at the north end. The long range is hipped at the north and extends south with an industrial timber range of the same height and section. A gabled porch at the front return of the crosswing features a plaster relief of grapes and the date 1706. All existing windows are modern casements, and the roofs are covered with peg tiles. Inside, the south room is panelled in pine with fielded and bolection moulding, a timber ceiling cornice, and wide oak floorboards. This room, along with the dog-leg stair that has turned balusters, dates from around 1680 to 1740.
Local climate
The Malting sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 650 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 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2025
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