The Old Maltings

TL 0516 7/152 26.1.67

MARKYATE HIGH STREET (East side) No. 11 (The Old Maltings) (Formerly listed as No. 11)

GV II

House and malting, now a private house. C17 or earlier, early C18 brick front, renovated and S bay added on site of former end lean-to c.1960s. Timber frame now exposed only in rear wall and inside, frame of former S gable reconstructed with fancy patterned brick infill as new extended S gable. Red brick front chequered with grey headers, deep plaster coved eaves cornice to steep old red tiled roof. A 5-windows long, 2 storeys, cellar and former attics house facing W on a prominent corner site. Originally a 3-cells, central chimney, lobby-entry plan house with stair in turret behind stack. W front has 5 2-light casement windows to the 1st floor, pattern of 2 large lozenges in grey headers to RH of window opposite chimney, brick plat-band interrupted for a doorcase of former door opposite chimney under 2nd window from N end. Entrance now into N bay by glazed door in glazed screen under a carved beam. 4 ground floor windows recessed and 3-light wide casement windows with transoms. Interior has wide open-fireplaces back-to-back, axial chamfered beams, chamfered joists with hollow stops in bay to S chimney (cellar under this bay), exposed frame and timbering in walls and stair tower. Said to have had cruck blades built into former S wall now removed.

Listing NGR: TL0594016722