Malting Farm House

Malting Farm House is a house dating from the late 16th century, with parts rebuilt in the mid-17th century and altered in the 19th century. It features a timber frame that is plastered and has a thatched roof. The house has a broad two-cell lobby entry plan, with an earlier parlour section to the right. It is two storeys high with an attic. The central entrance is set within a 19th-century gabled porch, which has a boarded door, hood mould, and bargeboards. On either side of the entrance are transomed three-light casement windows, with three-light windows on the first floor, all featuring leaded panes and hood moulds. The central ridge stack has been enlarged during the rebuilding on the left and has a rebuilt cap. The right gable end has similar casements, with a triangulated, bargeboarded head above the first-floor window, and exposed plates and purlins. The left gable end has an entrance and exposed purlins. At the rear left, there is a 19th-century pantiled lean-to outshut, with a boarded door to the right. Attached to the front left is a low outbuilding made of clay lump and pantiles.

Inside, the parlour features stop-chamfered cross axial binding beams and roll-moulded joists, along with a reset 18th-century screen that has fielded panels and a cornice. The hall contains a chamfered binding beam and above the fireplace are two 17th-century terracotta medallions depicting boars with coronets. On the first floor, there is an early four-light chamfered mullioned opening, cambered tie beams supporting a double purlin roof, and lower butt purlins clasped by collars. The house is situated on a partly moated site.