North Maltings is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1992. Maltings.
North Maltings
- WRENN ID
- fading-casement-barley
- 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 Maltings, Watton Road, Ware
- OS grid reference
- TL 354 145
- Coordinates
- 51.8133, -0.03617
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
North Maltings is a maltings building dating from the late 1840s. It is constructed of yellow stock brick in Flemish bond, with the east and west ends featuring weatherboarded timber framing. The roof is made of pantiles with gabled ends, and the kiln is clad in plain tiles. The structure is a long rectangular range that contains three maltings floors.
The south front has 12 bays, which include brick pilasters and small segmental brick arch windows. There are additional weatherboarded bays at the left and right ends, with the right (east) end featuring a projecting weatherboarded gabled hoist housing. At the west (left) end, there are truncated cone-shaped kilns on the north and south pitches of the roof, although the cowl is missing.
Inside, there is a 6-foot high tunnel beneath the kiln that runs across the building. The kiln retains its wire floors, which are supported on iron bars secured by 21 round oval tie-plates inscribed with "CHAS.WELLS WARE." Charles Wells manufactured ironwork for malting in Ware until around 1847.
Local climate
North 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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