Malt Kilns Attached Brewery And Glaven Cottage

The site comprises malt kilns, a brewery, and Glaven Cottage, located alongside the River Glaven. The malt kilns date from around 1800 and were built for William Hardy (1770-1842). The brewery itself is earlier, constructed around 1783 for William Hardy (1732-1811). Glaven Cottage, attached to the brewery’s southeastern side, was originally built in 1792 for the brewery clerk and was substantially renewed in 1870 to serve as the brewer’s residence.

The malt kilns, situated north of the road, are constructed of gault brick with corrugated tile roofing, featuring a hipped roof with wide eaves. The walls are battered and include clasping pilasters of gault brick, along with two panels of knapped flint on the west and east facades and three panels on the north facade, all separated by gault brick pilasters. A 1937 clock is set into the kilns, with a face on both the east and west returns, and it has chiming bells at the centre of the north side. Two wooden cowls rise from lead-covered bases, with copper heads. The interior features a cast iron malting floor and central kilns with a quarter-vaulted passage surrounding them.

A former malting building, now a barn, is attached and was previously used as part of the brewery. It is constructed of flint with red brick dressings, with a hipped roof to the south, covered with pantiles to the west and corrugated tiles to the east. It has five bays and two storeys, with louvred openings – five to each floor of the east facade and four to each floor of the west facade. A large door is situated to the left of the west facade. A small attached two-storey building to the left of the door is of no particular interest. A leet (a small artificial channel) runs under the southern bays, utilising waters from the River Glaven. The interior of the barn reveals a four-tier queen post roof with king posts from collars. The first floor has been removed, except in the first bay, which is supported by two lines of low cast iron columns.

Glaven Cottage, attached to the brewery at the southeast, dates from 1870. It is constructed of flint with brick dressings and has a pantile roof. It has two bays and is double-depth, with a platband of broken flint between courses of brick. A central axial stack of brick features a cross in flint flushwork on each side. A gabled brick porch is located to the right, featuring a chamfered four-centred brick arch with a date plaque inscribed “1870” above it. Casements have cast iron glazing bars and gothic-headed panes, situated within square surrounds of chamfered brick. There are two 2-light casements on the first floor, one 1-light casement to the right of the porch, and one 3-light leaded window to the left. The left return of the cottage has a platband and eaves courses in gault brick, along with a central quoined brick flush column. The gable features a Cozens-Hardy double crest and motto in terracotta.