The Malthouse 5 Metres East Of The Abbey House And Attached Walling

The Malthouse, located 5 metres east of The Abbey House, is a former abbey building, possibly an infirmary, dating from around 1400, with a 18th-century west gable wall. Originally, the building extended further west. It features ashlar and rubble-stone walls and has a buttress with two set-offs at the southwest corner. The roof is covered with clay Roman tiles and there are no stacks. The structure is two storeys high, although it is now only ceiled at the west end. It has four windows with irregular fenestration, including 14th-century openings that have later wooden framing, and a skewed loop-light at the centre.

There is a two-centred archway immediately west of the south wall, which consists of two moulded orders that die into the jambs. The eastern part of this wall was previously covered by the south wing and has a large blocked opening with a square head featuring three chamfered orders. To the west, there is a blocked pedestrian doorway with a pointed-segmental head. The east wall has two square-headed lights on the lower floor, while the upper floor features a single late 14th-century window with two trefoiled lights, cross-transomed, and rebated internally for shutters, along with a chamfered reveal arch.

Inside, there is a beam shelf on the north and south walls at the upper floor level, and vertical chases in the south wall likely indicate the wall-parts of the original roof. The attached west wall of the south wing runs south for 60 metres and stands approximately 3.5 metres high. It has various openings from north to south: a single square-headed light, a window with two trefoiled lights in a square head, a doorway with a segmental-pointed head, and three ranges of two single-light windows stacked one above another. All these windows have square heads, except for the southernmost one on the ground floor, which has a trefoiled head.