The Maltings

The Maltings is a hall house with one crosswing, dating from the 15th and 17th centuries, and has been altered in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is timber-framed, plastered, and has a tiled roof. The hall is aligned northwest to southeast and includes an integral service end at the southeast. A floor has been inserted in the hall, and the original crownpost roof has been rebuilt as clasped purlin construction to create more headroom. A dormer has been added, and the crosswing, built or rebuilt in the early 17th century, features a double hearth at the junction with the hall, forming a lobby entrance. Some reconstruction has occurred at the service end, which is undatable, involving the rebuilding of side walls and the roof. The crosswing is two storeys high, while the hall block is a single storey with attics. The crosswing roof is hipped, and the hall has a gabled roof at the southeast.

On the ground floor, there is one 20th-century casement window, a 20th-century door with an early 19th-century hood, and two 20th-century bay windows. The upper floor has one 20th-century casement window and two additional windows in hipped dormers. The framing is exposed internally only at the southeast end. The lower southeast wall is original, featuring curved tension bracing trenched outside the studs and grooves for sliding shutters. The side walls have been rebuilt with primary straight bracing. There is one of a pair of twin service doorways with a double ogee head exposed, while the other may be hidden within the plaster. The floor of the service end is supported on clamps pegged to the wall, with an original stair trap visible from below, suggesting that there may not have originally been an upper storey. In the roof of the hall, the original rafters are trenched for crownpost construction and are lightly smoke-blackened, although the crownposts have been removed. There is also a fragment of hollow-moulded timber with original red paint, reused as a stud. The T-plan stair is located northeast of the stack and features an early 19th-century banister. The name "The Maltings" comes from a former building on the northwest edge of the site, which is recorded in the tithe map and award of 1847 and has since been demolished.