The Maltings

TL 51 NE GREAT CANFIELD CHURCH END 2/42 THE MALTINGS

GV II

Hall house with one crosswing, C15 and C17, altered in Cl9 and C20. Timber- framed, plastered, roof tiled. Hall aligned NW-SE with integral service end at SE. Floor inserted in hall, original crownpost roof rebuilt as clasped purlin construction to gain headroom, one dormer inserted, crosswing built or rebuilt with double hearth at junction of hall and crosswing, forming a lobby- entrance, all early C17. Some reconstruction at service end, undatable, involving rebuilding of side walls and roof. 2 storey crosswing, hall block single storey with attics. Crosswing roof hipped, hall gabled at SE. On ground floor, one C20 casement window, C20 door with early C19 hood, 2 C20 bay windows. On upper floor, one C20 casement window and 2 more in hipped dormers. Framing exposed internally at SE end only. Lower SE wall original, with curved tension bracing trenched outside studs, and grooves for sliding shutters. Side walls rebuilt, with primary straight bracing. One of a pair of twin service doorways with double ogee head exposed, the other possibly present within the plaster. Floor of service end supported on clamps pegged to wall (with original stair trap visible from below), indicating that there may not have been an upper storey originally. In roof of hall, original rafters trenched for crownpost construction, lightly smoke- blackened, but crownposts removed. Also, fragment of hollow-moulded timber with original red paint, re-used as a stud. T-plan stair NE of stack with early C19 banister. The name, The Maltings, derives from a former building on NW edge of site, recorded in tithe map and award of 1847, demolished.

Listing NGR: TL5933618089