1-4 Malthouse Cottages

Former house and malthouse, now four cottages, dating from the mid-16th century, with possible origins as a hall house at the centre, and early 17th-century cross wings to either end. The building is timber framed, with an exposed first floor in the centre and whitewashed render infill, built on a sandstone rubble base galleted with ironstone and dressed with blue and red brick. The right-hand side has galleted sandstone and brick cladding, while the left-hand side has decorative exposed framing. The roof is tiled, with a rendered gable on the right.

The cottages are two storeys high, with two and a half framed bays in the centre and three framed bays in the cross wings. A large cut-off stack is on the left side, with two diagonal stacks, one at the front and back of the ridge to the left of the centre, and two rear ridge stacks to the right of the centre. The left-hand gabled bay has circular and semi-circular decorative framing and cusping in its gable. Windows are casement style, with one on each floor. The centre has three small first-floor casements and two on the ground floor below. The right-hand extension has two first-floor casements under a projecting pentice hood across the base of the gable, and one ground-floor casement. A ribbed 20th-century part-glazed door is on the right side of the left-hand cross wing (No. 4), and a further ribbed door is to the right of the centre (No. 2). A further rear door is present. The right-hand cross wing has a slate-hung first-floor gable.

The interior of the centre section retains re-used timber in the roof, including gablet collar construction, through purlin diminishing rafter construction, and jowled principal posts.