1-7, Draymans Mews, St Pancras

This building comprises a maltkiln and associated structures located in St Pancras, Chichester. Dated 1803, with a mid-19th century addition, the complex has undergone alterations over time.

The maltkiln is constructed of red brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with a Welsh slate roof. A two-storey building adjoins the kiln, also dated 1803, built of red brick with blue headers in Flemish bond, irregular bonding to the left return, tile-hung gables, and a plain tile roof. A further range was added, set back on the right, constructed of pinkish brick in Flemish bond with a plain tile roof. The kiln itself is square, linked at the rear to the 1803 building, with the added range set back.

The kiln features an inserted board door under a concrete lintel on the northwest side. Timber plates are positioned halfway up the southwest and northeast sides, with the latter also featuring round end plates with two ties. It has a pyramidal roof, with the cowl now removed. The 1803 building has segmental header-brick arched windows on the ground floor, and square-headed first-floor windows set below stepped, dentilled eaves; all windows are now blocked or boarded. The northeast side displays two ground-floor windows and three first-floor windows, with a datestone inscribed "C T&A June 1803" placed between the first two windows on the left. The rear of this building has four ground-floor windows and three above. The left return has a small ground-floor window, and the right return an inserted doorway. The mid-19th century addition has an entrance with a double door flanked by windows on the right, and another window to the left; all openings have segmental header-brick arches and bricked-up windows. Stepped dentilled eaves and blocked openings in the rear wall are also visible. A wide, inserted folding garage door is present in the right return.

Inside the kiln, the drying floor has been removed, but the doorway used to access the adjoining range remains at the upper level. The adjoining range has had its first and loft floors removed; the loft formerly rested on large scantling cross-beams, with boarded walls and ceiling. The roof features collared principal rafter trusses, a plank ridge piece and staggered butt purlins. Similarly, the added range once had a loft floor supported by queen post and queen strut roof trusses.

The kiln and added range are later than the 1803 building, but the original building appears to have functioned as a maltings, and the present kiln likely replaced an earlier, similar structure.