South Central Maltings

WARE TOWN

TL3514NE WATTON ROAD 829-1/7/177 (South side) 24/02/92 South Central Maltings

GV II

Maltings. Circa late 1840s; partly rebuilt in late C19 (after 1880). Yellow stock brick in Flemish bond. Gable ends and part of west end clad in weatherboards and corrugated iron sheets. Gable-ended pantile roof. Long rectangular plan; wider at east end where it has been rebuilt; kiln at west end. East end converted and office extension added on south side in C20. 3 storeys. Segmental headed small windows. At lower west end the tile-hung conical kiln projects from roof with conical boarded cowl on top. On south side of east end of a 2-storey flat roof C20 extension. INTERIOR: kiln and malt store are intact except for removal of wire floor and inserted steel beam. 9 tie-plates inscribed J COPSEY WARE'. J Copsey was a wire-worker and blacksmith in Ware in the early 1860s. The rebuilt east end has 12 tie-plates inscribedFREDK HITCH WARE'. Frederick Hitch was a builder in Ware in the late 1880s. (The Industrial Archaeology of the British Isles: Branch Johnson W: The Industrial Archaeology of Hertfordshire: Newton Abbot: 1970-: 179; Ware Tithe Map: 1845-; Ware 25" to 1 Mile. Surveyed by the Ordnance Survey Department: 1851-).

Listing NGR: TL3551014524