The Maltings

The Maltings is an early 19th-century house built on foundations dating to the mid-18th century. It is constructed of red brick with a slate roof, with pantiles on the rear slope of the rear wing, and has brick ridge and rear stacks. The house follows a T-shaped plan, with an earlier wing extending to the north side of the rear.

The south-facing front has three bays at the first floor, featuring four-over-eight horned sash windows on either side of a nine-pane sash-type window. The ground floor has a central entrance with a semicircular brick arch and a four-panel door with fanlight. Flanking the door are two eight-over-eight unhorned sashes. A similar window is located on the left end, with a painted false window above. The right end is blank. The front of the rear wing faces east and features two eight-over-eight sashes above three small casements and a door with a gabled hood. The north gable wall of this wing shows evidence of an earlier range that was extended to provide additional accommodation, with a small lean-to extension below. The rear of this wing has further two-light casements and a small French window.

The interior of the front range includes two similar early 19th-century style moulded wood fireplaces with 20th-century brick grates, and a dogleg staircase with stick balustrade. Numerous four-panel doors, retaining their original handles, are found throughout the property. The rear wing’s roof shows two phases of construction, with rafters added to the garden side to accommodate alterations to the exterior wall line. Features from the original mid-18th-century range remain, including mid-18th-century two-panel doors with HL hinges and early handles and catches, as well as plank doors with similar hinges. A secondary winder back staircase is also present.

The group value of the building derives from its relatively unaltered early 19th-century form, original glazing-bar sash windows, symmetrical south front with panelled door and fanlight typical of the period, and the survival of elements from a mid-18th-century range in the rear wing, together with characteristic interior features from both periods.