Old Malt House is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. Former malt house.
Old Malt House
- WRENN ID
- distant-spire-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Former malt house
- Address
- Old Malt House, West Looe Hill
- OS grid reference
- SX 252 531
- Coordinates
- 50.35245, -4.45811
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Malt House is a former malt house that has been converted into a house, located at the end of a row in West Looe. It is likely from the early 19th century, built on an older site. The exterior features painted rubble with asbestos slate-hanging on the studwork of the first floor, and it jetties over the carriageway on the left-hand return. The roof is dry slate and hipped on the left, with a brick stack on that side. The building has a double-depth plan and is two storeys tall with a two-window range.
The original windows are 16-pane hornless sashes, and there is a central doorway on the first floor, which has a 20th-century door and overlight. This doorway is accessed by a flight of rubble steps with slate treads, and it has an original wrought-iron balustrade with turned cast-iron finials. On the ground floor, there is a sash window under the left-hand sash. The left-hand return also features a two-window range, with an original sash on the left and a 20th-century narrow central window. The ground floor has a central doorway flanked by large window openings, which contain 20th-century casements with glazing bars. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Old Malt House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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