1-6, Maltings Mews

HERTFORD

TL3212SW MALTINGS MEWS 817-1/19/111 (North East side) 25/08/72 Nos.1-6 (Consecutive) (Formerly Listed as: WEST STREET The Maltings)

GV II

Former maltings, now converted to housing. Early C19, enlarged 1855, converted and extended c1974 (architect John Snellgrove). Yellow-brown stock brick, laid to Flemish bond, with white-painted and black-stained weatherboarding to return north end of block. Hipped old tiled roofs, north-east corner with Welsh slated end incorporating conical kiln roof with mortarboard cowl. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; main maltings 8 bays divided by shallow projecting buttresses. Building refenestrated with multiple wooden sashes with glazing bars during conversion, with first-floor window projecting as box dormers above eaves line on main north-south block. Glazed doors in west wall, projecting wing at left (west) and end of kiln house has C20 sash windows ground and first floor. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: this maltings was in existence in 1830 when shown on Turnor's Map (History of Hertford), but not in 1823-4 when Pigot's Directory was published. In 1855 the Nicholls family opened a brewery on the adjoining site to the east, behind No.6 West Street (qv). The Maltings was probably enlarged at this date. (The industrial archaeology of the British Isles: Branch Johnson W: Industrial Archaeology of Hertfordshire: Newton Abbot: 1970-: 42, 45).

Listing NGR: TL3236012391