The Malthouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 December 1972. Malt house.
The Malthouse
- WRENN ID
- burning-gateway-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 December 1972
- Type
- Malt house
- Address
- The Malthouse, Priory Street, Hertford
- OS grid reference
- TL 328 127
- Coordinates
- 51.79798, -0.07547
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Malthouse is a former maltings building, later used as a maintenance depot, which has been converted into residential flats. Built around 1875 for Benjamin Young, it was transformed into 23 retirement flats in 1987 and then into an elderly persons rest house in 1990, designed by the architects Wakefield Poyser Partnership. The building is constructed of yellow stock brick laid in Flemish bond, featuring a dark stained weatherboarded cowl.
The exterior consists of three storeys and attics, originally four floors, measuring 111 feet in length and 40 feet in width, with a 76-foot cistern and a 35-foot kiln. The main maltings range has six bays, with four rows of openings below featuring segmental arches; three of these now have 20th-century wood casement windows, while one is blank with recesses due to changes in internal floor levels. The attic is now illuminated by 20th-century roof lights. The kiln house is divided by brick buttresses and has largely 20th-century casement windows in new openings with segmental arches. To the left, the former malt store is two storeys with attics and is mostly a 20th-century reconstruction, clad in dark stained weatherboard.
The interior has been completely remodelled during the conversion, reducing the four levels of malting floors to three, while an attic has been added. The kiln furnaces were removed during this conversion.
Local climate
The Malthouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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