Bush Hall Farm Malthouse

Malthouse, dating circa 1847, situated west of Bush Hall Farm. The malthouse itself is ten bays wide and constructed of yellow stock brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with a Welsh slate roof featuring red and black clay ridge tiles. It has two storeys, with segmental-arched windows divided by twelve full-height pilasters on the southern elevation, and on the first floor of the northern elevation. The northern elevation now has eight double doors at ground floor level. A Victorian letterbox is set into a pilaster on the south-eastern side of the southern elevation. To the north-west is a weatherboarded lucam with a slate roof, and an original hand-operated water pump is attached to the external wall. An integral drying kiln is located to the east of the malthouse, and a maltstore extends further east. The maltstore is timber-framed and has a slate roof, also of two storeys.

Inside, the malthouse has kingpost roof trusses, and evidence of the original malting processes remains, including the original hoist in the lucam, a wooden chute connecting the first and ground floors, a slate-slab growing floor unique to Essex, evidence of a couch frame, and the original windows in the south elevation of the kiln. This represents a rare and unusually complete example of a two-storey farm malting.