Dereham Maltings (Crisp Malting Group)

Dereham Maltings, also known as F & G Smith Maltings, is a maltings building constructed in 1870 and 1894. It features red brick with gault brick buttresses and dressings, and has an L-shaped layout with an office/store range at the front and two parallel ranges at the rear right. The office and barley intake/store section is three storeys high with a six-window range, primarily consisting of barred and boarded openings with arched heads. Gault brick buttresses run along the front and left end, and courses of gault brick highlight the heads and sills of the windows. The ornamental eaves extend to the sides, forming pedimented gable ends. There are doorways at the ground floor and one on the first floor, along with a large central lucam and a lean-to in a similar style on the right end.

The malthouse at the rear is also three storeys tall and has a seventeen-window range with square windows under segmental heads, which are closed by internal timber shutters. The gabled roofs are hipped to the north, and there are four two-storey kilns at the east end, each featuring segmental-headed coal loading gates on the ground floor and three shuttered first-floor windows. The pyramid kiln roofs culminate in circular steel flues. At the south end, there are two loading and storage buildings, each two storeys high with a two- by three-window range and gabled roofs hipped to the south.

Inside, the malthouse contains three malting floors, each supported by six by twelve bays of cast-iron columns, with ladder staircases between the floors. The kilns on the upper floor feature a furnace cone equipped with an ambulatory, and within each of the four arched recesses on the semi-basement floor of the kiln shaft is an automatic Suxe gravity-fed coal-fired furnace. The kiln roofs are made of timber cross trees and braces, supported by cast-iron columns. The south block includes packing and storage facilities, featuring a belt-driven malt screen. This building is a very complete and rare example of a medium-sized maltings.