The Old Maltings

The Old Maltings is a house and former malting that has been converted into a private residence. It dates from the 17th century or earlier, with an early 18th-century brick front. The building was renovated and a southern bay was added on the site of a former lean-to around the 1960s. The timber frame is now only visible in the rear wall and inside, while the frame of the former southern gable has been reconstructed with decorative patterned brick infill. The front is made of red brick, featuring a chequered pattern with grey headers, and has a deep plaster coved eaves cornice beneath a steep old red tiled roof.

The house is two storeys high, with a cellar and former attics, and it faces west on a prominent corner site. Originally, it had a three-cell layout with a central chimney and a lobby-entry plan, with the staircase located in a turret behind the stack. The west front has five 2-light casement windows on the first floor, with a pattern of two large lozenges in grey headers to the right of the window opposite the chimney. There is a brick plat-band that is interrupted for a doorcase of a former door opposite the chimney, located under the second window from the north end. The current entrance is into the northern bay through a glazed door in a glazed screen beneath a carved beam.

On the ground floor, there are four recessed windows and three wide 3-light casement windows with transoms. Inside, the building features wide open fireplaces that are back-to-back, axial chamfered beams, and chamfered joists with hollow stops in the bay of the southern chimney, which has a cellar underneath. The exposed frame and timbering can be seen in the walls and stair tower. It is said that cruck blades were built into the former southern wall, which has since been removed.