Maltings, Numbers 3 And 4 Adjacent To School Road

MISTLEY SCHOOL ROAD TM 1131

10/256 Maltings, Nos 3 and 4 adjacent to School Road 30.7.75 (Formerly listed as west range of Malthouses, adjacent to School Lane)

GV II

Double range maltings. Circa 1896-1900. For Free, Rodwell and Co. Ltd. Iron work by J.R.M. Fitch, Lawford Ironworks, Manningtree. Red brick with yellow brick dressings. Gabled returns, grey slate roofs. 5 storeys. North face of 2 large blocks each with 2 gables and central carriageway of 4 storeys with link floor over and gable, i.e. 5 gables. Each gable of 2 bays with pilasters between alternately extending to gable apices, plinth, richly moulded and dentilled band to each storey, continuing through pilasters, similar moulding to gables. 2 oculi to each gable. 3 light ventilator windows to each bay and storey, each with brick segmental head and moulded keystone. Most windows retain their central louvre and narrow side vents but 3 on the 4th storey are partly blocked. Ventilators under each window of 2nd, 3rd and 4th storeys. Corbels to 4th storey of carriageway support arched braces with roundels and tracery to lintel. West face, adjacent to School Road. Of 15 bays with similar decoration to north face but the 3 southern bays have no bands. Bays 10, 11 and 12 break forward and have scrolls to return copings, to the east these bays form a gabled crosswing one storey higher than the main building. Moulded circular tie plates to the 3 lower storeys of each pilaster of the first 9 bays. The second bay has vertically boarded doors with segmental heads matching those of the windows, to each storey. Interior features include red quarry tile malting floors. Rubble separator. Various hoists, chutes and conveyors. 4 steeping tanks. Power shovel. Barley store. Cast iron columns with moulded capitals to each bay and floor. Cast iron linking bridge across carriageway, q.v. No. 1 Maltings 10/249 for references and history.

Listing NGR: TM1196631596