The Maltings I And II

The Maltings I and II are former maltings of the Hadlow Brewery, located on the north side of Hadlow High Street. The buildings were constructed circa 1845 and converted to flats in 1988. They are constructed of buff-coloured Flemish bond brick with bands of red brick and red brick dressings. The former office front is of yellow and red brick with limestone dressings. The roofs are slate.

The two large buildings are set adjacent to and at an angle to each other. Maltings I is positioned end onto the street on a rough north-west to south-east axis, with its front end being more architectural and probably originally built as the brewery offices. It has two large square-plan drying kilns at the back end. Maltings II is orientated more east-west with two similar drying kilns at the west end. Both buildings are four storeys with accommodation in the roof space.

The gable-end wall of Maltings I onto the street has a symmetrical three-window front in Romanesque style, executed in yellow brick with decorative red brick dressings. At ground floor level there are three full-height windows in round-headed arches under a continuous stone hoodmould; the centre window is larger and has a stone keystone. At first floor level there is a single-light round-headed window flanked by similar two-light windows under a continuous hoodmould. A similar two-light window appears in the gable end, which is topped with a cogged brick eaves cornice. The left long side (to south-west) comprises twelve bays including the kiln, divided by brick pilasters and featuring a corbelled eaves cornice that includes cogged bricks. The other side is plainer, with a three-window-wide bay projecting towards the rear, full height and gabled; this was formerly a loading bay. The eaves cornice on this side includes a brick dentil frieze. Windows are in segmental-head arches; many were renewed in 1988 and others have been altered, containing casements with no glazing bars. Large low-pitch gabled dormers were added in 1988. The former drying kilns have tall pyramid roofs surmounted by cowls. Maltings II is in the same style and has been converted in the same manner.

The interiors were not inspected.

The Maltings form part of a group of varied listed buildings on the western approach to Hadlow and are large buildings of considerable importance to the town and to the area, which remains a major producer of hops.