Maltings Farmhouse

This is a 15th-century house, altered in the 16th and 17th centuries, and now used as a restaurant and flat. It is timber framed and has been roughcast rendered, with a roof mainly of handmade red clay tiles, partly slate. The main building is a two-bay hall facing northeast, with a 16th-century axial stack in the left bay. To the left is a two-bay service crosswing, and to the right a three-bay parlour/solar crosswing, both projecting to the rear. A long 17th-century extension or ancillary building is incorporated to the right, with a 19th-century lean-to extension with a slate roof on the rear of the hall.

The main building is of two storeys, and the right extension is of one storey with attics. The front of the main building has two late 19th-century sash windows of four lights on the ground floor, one 19th-century casement window, and three similar sash windows on the first floor. A four-panel door, the upper panels glazed, is set within a 20th-century gabled porch. The right extension has one 20th-century casement window, with the remainder obscured by foliage. Gablets are present at the ends of the hall and at the rear of both crosswings. The rear elevation, now used as an entrance, has scattered 20th-century windows and two 20th-century doors. Shaped sprockets are visible below the eaves.

Inside the hall, a mid-16th century inserted floor features a transverse moulded beam and moulded joists with run-out stops, a wide wood-burning hearth (the mantel beam replaced), and a roof raised in the 17th century. A bridging beam with mortices for a former partition between two service rooms is present in the left crosswing, along with plain joists with unrefined soffit tenons, jowled posts, a cambered central tiebeam with one arched brace, wallplates with edge-halved and bridled scarfs, and a roof altered in the 17th century. A former front jetty has been cut back to align with the hall. There are diamond mortices for a blocked window in the upper wall of the left crosswing. The right crosswing has an original partition, a chamfered binding beam, plain joists with unrefined soffit tenons, jowled posts, and similar roof alterations and jetty as the left crosswing. A bread oven is located at the junction with the right extension, and this extension features a chamfered axial beam and plain joists of vertical section. The building was recorded in the 1841 tithe award as the farmhouse of a 58-acre farm.