Yard Wall To Devenish Number 1 Malthouse

The yard wall to Devenish No.1 Malthouse is a boundary wall and gateways dating from the early to mid 19th century. It is constructed from Portland stone, either squared and coursed or coursed rubble, with a total length of approximately 32 meters. The wall encloses a courtyard across the width of the Malthouse, measuring about 4.5 meters in length and standing around 2.7 meters high, topped with a rough saddle-back coping.

At the right-hand end, the wall terminates at a dressed jamb, featuring an opening approximately 3 meters wide that contains a pair of plank gates set on timber posts. On the left side, the wall continues with smaller coursed rubble and similar coping, sweeping back in a segmental curve to jambs made of large dressed blocks with half-pyramidal cappings, leading to a former opening about 3.5 meters wide, which has been filled to full height with concrete blockwork. Beyond this opening, the segmental sweep angles slightly to meet the side wall of No.7 Hope Street, a warehouse that is connected to the Malthouse by a footbridge. This wall is significant not only as part of the Malthouse's structure but also for its visual relationship with Hope Square.