Malthouse

This is a house dating from the 16th century, originally a main range with a cross-wing to its left, and incorporating the end bay of a taller range to the right. The bay on the right once belonged to the adjacent house and was associated with its 16th-century use as an inn. The house is timber-framed and plastered, with remnants of old panelled plasterwork visible. The front of the main range has plain tiles, while the rear is slated. The cross-wing is pantiled, and the section on the right has a pantiled front and slated rear. The house is two storeys high. The upper floor of the main range is jettied to the front, and there is a jettied loft over the carriage entrance. Windows are mostly casement windows from the 18th and 19th centuries, with square-leaded glass fitted in the mid-20th century. Two doorways are accessed by boarded and battened doors. A lintol above the carriage entrance is supported by solid braces. There is a good studded gate, likely added in the 17th century. Inside the house, there is an internal stack between the main range and the cross-wing, with two shafts in the rear roof slope, one made of narrow brick. The rear of the cross-wing has been significantly altered, with a mid-20th-century monopitch roof. The interior of the main range comprises three bays, and the cross-wing four bays, both retaining some good heavy studwork, especially on the upper floor. The gable end of the wing has a sill for an oriel window. A room at the front of the wing has closely-set plain joists, and an intact 17th-century upper fireplace remains. The bay containing the carriage entrance was raised by approximately one meter to align with later work to the right. The house is named for a malting that stood by the stream at the rear until the early 20th century.