The Malthouse

SP 5702 GARSINGTON PETTIWELL (West side) 7/39 No.22 (The Malthouse)

GV II

House and maltings. C17 and C18/19. Rubble and brick with some timber- framing; old plain tile roofs with brick ridge stacks. Complex plan: 2-unit house range has one-unit wings at rear, on right, and front, on left; adjoining on right, the end of a 5-bay maltings which projects to rear. One- storey plus attics; entrance and 3-light casement under single timber lintel with pitch-hole over; similar arrangement on right with further 2-light casement beyond; to left, C18/19 brick wing (probably rebuilt) has 2-course string at eaves level, 4-light casement, and 3-light casement in gable. Roof is continuous over all parts with hip to return on right; left-hand gable is timber-framed with brick infill. Interior has large fireplaces, one (in front wing) flanked by winder stair; second stair in rear wing which has no direct connection with house. The house incorporates a timber-framed cross-wall with raised sill, and its gable, infilled with brick, survives in the roof-space. The former maltings retains part of the maltings floor, and has 4 trusses with curved principals terminating at a collar below the upper purlin (probably C17). The furthermost truss probably lowered. Rear gable of the maltings has a dovecote. Maltsters are recorded here in 1730 and in the early C19.

Listing NGR: SP5792502097