Maltings Farmhouse

Maltings Farmhouse is a house dating from the 16th century, with later alterations and additions. It is timber framed and rough rendered, topped with a red plain tiled roof. The building features external red brick chimney stacks on the left and off-center right. It has two storeys and a three-window range of three-light small paned casements with shutters. Above the doorway is a 18th-century moulded circular window with four glazing bars and a central porch roundel. The gabled porch has a 20th-century glazed door situated between the left and central windows, while the inner door is a 19th-century panelled design with ornate heads to the upper glazing and a moulded surround. An original chimney stack on the left has a plaque over the fireplace that reads "H K 1597," believed to relate to Henry King. The landing wall displays heavy studs with halved bracing. The original frame includes stop-chamfered bridging joists and chamfered jowled storey posts. It is noted that an individual named Abraham Rutkin, a husbandman, lived here in 1796, as recorded by F.H. Erith in "Ardleigh in 1796," published in 1978.