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

WALLINGFORD LOWER WHARF SU6089SE (South side) Wallingford 11/105 St. Lucian's and attached 09/12/49 former maltings (Formerly listed as St. Lucian's Lower Wharf)

GV II*

House and attached maltings and flats. Mid C16 house, possibly incorporating earlier work; early C17 maltings and hop kiln. C17 bays to house. Limestone rubble and flint plinth; roughcast, with decorative pargetting, probably on brick, with some stone quoins, to ground floor; roughcast, with decorative pargeting, probably on timber framing to first floor; old plain-tile roof; brick end stacks with diagonally set flues. 2-unit cross-passage plan with central staircase. 2 storeys and attic; 3-window range. Plank ribbed and studded door with stone Tudor-arch doorway to centre with lean-to lead-covered hood on brackets. 2-light leaded stone mullion windows to left and right of centre. Angled 2-storey bays with leaded stone mullion windows to ground and first floor at left and with battlemented parapet. Continuous hood mould to ground floor with reversed hearts above. 3-light wood mullion window with 2-light side-windows to first floor centre. 3 cross-gables to roof with 2-light leaded wood mullion windows. Rear: 2 storeys and attic; 3-window range. 6-panel part-glazed door with rendered architrave surround to centre. 2-storey angled bays with leaded stone mullion windows to ground and first floor at left and right, except early C19 French doors to ground floor right. Continuous hood mould to ground floor with reversed hearts above. 3-light wood mullion window with 2-light side-windows to first floor centre. 3 cross-gables to roof with 2-light leaded wood mullion windows. Interior: C17 straight flight staircase with winders to base, from ground to first floor with baluster balustrade. Queen strut roof with purlins cut to form cross-gables, Tudor-arched stone fireplaces to ground and first floor left and right. Maltings and subsidiary dwellings at right-angles to left. Coursed clunch rubble with C19 brick buttress; old plain-tile roof. Approx. 7 bays long. Collar truss roof with some windbracing. Hop kiln at junction: clunch rubble with brick dressings to base; large timber framing above with brick infill; old plain-tile gableted roof with conical roof of kiln rising from ridge, with wooden louvred cap. Original roof structure of kiln survives. Subsidiary dwelling range at right-angles to house, fronting onto street: flint base; clunch rubble walls; old plain tile roof. 2-storey, 4-window range. Panel doors, Irregular fenestration of casements. Deep jetty to first floor. Collar truss roof. The house fronts onto the River Thames. (V.C.H,: Berkshire, Vol.III, 1923; "Some Notes on the Domestic Architecture of Wallingford, Berkshire"; by P.S. Spokes, in Berkshire Archaeological Journal, 'Jol.50 1947).

Listing NGR: SU6084689025