St Lucian'S And Attached Former Maltings St Lucian'S Lower Wharf

This is a mid-16th century house, likely incorporating earlier fabric, with early 17th century maltings and a hop kiln attached. It stands on the River Thames in Wallingford, Berkshire.

The house is constructed of limestone rubble and flint, with a roughcast finish to the ground floor, possibly on brick, featuring decorative pargetting. The upper floor is roughcast over what is probably timber framing. It has an old plain-tile roof and brick end stacks with diagonally set flues. The original plan incorporates a central staircase and a cross-passage. The facade is two storeys and an attic, with a three-window range. A plank, ribbed, and studded door, set within a stone Tudor-arched doorway with a lean-to lead-covered hood, is centrally positioned. Leaded stone mullion windows flank the doorway, and angled two-storey bays are located to the left, featuring leaded stone mullion windows and a battlemented parapet. A continuous hood mould above the ground floor windows is decorated with reversed hearts. The first floor centre features a three-light wood mullion window and two-light side windows. Three cross-gables are present on the roof. The rear elevation mirrors the front, with a six-panel, part-glazed door and similar mullioned windows. Early 19th century French doors are also present on the ground floor. Inside, a straight staircase with winders leads from the ground to the first floor, featuring a baluster balustrade. The roof is a queen strut roof with cut purlins creating cross-gables, and Tudor-arched stone fireplaces are found on both ground and first floors.

Attached to the left is a range of maltings and subsidiary dwellings. Originally around seven bays long, these have clunch rubble walls with a 19th-century brick buttress and an old plain-tile roof. The roof structure features collar trusses with some windbracing. A hop kiln is situated at the junction with the house, constructed of clunch rubble and brick dressings with timber framing and brick infill above. It retains its original roof structure, including a conical kiln roof with a wooden louvred cap. A further subsidiary dwelling range, set at right angles to the house, fronts the street, constructed with a flint base, clunch rubble walls, and an old plain-tile roof with a deep jetty to the first floor. This range is two storeys and four windows and has irregular casement windows and panel doors.