The Malthouse

HERTFORD

TL3212NE PRIORY STREET 817-1/17/172 (West side) 08/12/72 The Malthouse (Formerly Listed as: PRIORY STREET Premises occupied by Borough of Hertford Housing Maintenance Depot)

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Former maltings, subsequently maintenance depot, now converted to residential use. c1875, for Benjamin Young, converted to 23 retirement flats 1987, and to elderly persons rest house 1990. Architects Wakefield Poyser Partnership. Yellow stock brick, laid to Flemish bond, dark stained weatherboarded cowl. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attics; originally 4 floors, 111ft length by 40 ft wide, with 76ft cistern (34m x 12m x 23m), couch and malting floor, 35ft (10.5m) kiln; malt store at right angles to main building range. Main maltings range of 6 bays, with 4 rows of openings below with segmental arches, 3 now with C20 wood casement windows, 1 blank with recesses due to realignment of internal-floor levels. Attic now lit by C20 roof lights. Kiln house divided by brick buttresses with offsets, 3 by 2 bays with largely C20 casement windows in new openings with segmental arches. On left, former malt store, 2 storeys and attics, with dark stained weatherboard cladding is largely a C20 reconstruction. INTERIOR: completely remodelled at time of conversion, the 4 levels of malting floors reduced to 3, but with insertion of attic. Kiln furnaces removed during conversion. (The industrial archaeology of the British Isles: Branch Johnson W: Industrial Archaeology of Hertfordshire: Newton Abbot: 1970-: 33-34,38-39, 167).

Listing NGR: TL3280712787