North Central Maltings is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1992. Maltings. 1 related planning application.
North Central Maltings
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-spandrel-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1992
- Type
- Maltings
- Address
- North Central Maltings, Watton Road, Ware, SG12 0AA
- OS grid reference
- TL 355 145
- Coordinates
- 51.81306, -0.03561
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
North Central Maltings is a circa 1840s malting, remodelled in the late 19th century. It is constructed of yellow stock brick, with a Flemish bond at the east end and an English bond at the rebuilt west end. The east end has a lower pantile roof, while the west end has slate roofs. The east end is weatherboarded, featuring a projecting gabled hoist housing. The building has a long rectangular plan.
The main range is three storeys high and nine bays wide, with small, segmentally-headed windows and brick pilasters between. To the left (east) is a weatherboarded section. A large, three-storey kiln is situated on the right (west), featuring a pyramidal slate roof with a rectangular, slate-hung cowl incorporating louvres. Flanking the kiln is a four-storey, three-bay range with a gabled slate canopy over a hoist door to the left, and a lower, two-storey and attic range with a gabled west end to the right (west).
The interior of the kiln contains a superstructure used to lower germinated barley into the kiln. The maltings underwent late 19th century alterations following the abolition of the Malt Tax in 1880.
Local climate
North Central Maltings sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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