Maltings at Boyes Croft is a Grade II* listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 June 1971. A C16 Maltings.
Maltings at Boyes Croft
- WRENN ID
- other-beam-flax
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 June 1971
- Type
- Maltings
- Address
- Maltings at Boyes Croft, White Street, Great Dunmow
- OS grid reference
- TL 628 220
- Coordinates
- 51.87311, 0.36403
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Maltings at Boyes Croft is a maltings complex that dates back to the early 16th century and includes later additions. The building features a timber frame with plaster, some weatherboarding, and brick elements. The long 16th-century range has a gabled peg tile roof, is largely rendered, and has weatherboarding in the upper half, along with old battened or diamond mullioned window openings.
To the east, there is a drying kiln with a conical peg tile roof, a rendered top, and a timber weather cover supported by iron stays. North of this kiln, there is a 19th-century extension that is lean-to in style, made of red brick with a slate roof. Beyond this is a taller barn-like block with a half-hipped peg tile roof and a lean-to roof over an open gallery and ladder stairs, featuring some old pargetting.
At the west end, there is a small two-storey square block with a weatherboarded first floor above red brick, a gabled peg tile roof, and a loft access door. Further west, there is another drying kiln with a square plan and peg tiles, along with a later outbuilding that has been converted into a day centre.
Inside the early 16th-century range, there are eight crown posts, bracing, and long jowls on the storey posts. The first floor is supported by binders with hanging knees, and the flat section floor joists have soffit tenons with diminished haunches.
Local climate
Maltings at Boyes Croft sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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