The Old Malthouse is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 February 1985. House.
The Old Malthouse
- WRENN ID
- seventh-baluster-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 February 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Malthouse, Bath Road, Melksham Without
- OS grid reference
- ST 891 653
- Coordinates
- 51.38685, -2.1567
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Malthouse is a house dating from the 17th to 18th century. It features an ashlar front, with a plastered first floor and rusticated ground floor, while the sides and rear are made of rubblestone. The roof is covered with stone slates, and the right wing has a hipped roof. The building is designed in an L-shape and is two stories tall, with a three-window front and a projecting wing on the right. A central Classical porch leads to a six-panelled door, and the windows are 12-pane sashes. There is a plat band at the top of the rusticated ground floor, along with a panelled frieze, cornice, and a plain parapet. The right wing also has a rusticated ground floor and plat band, with one 20-pane sash window on each floor. This wing lacks a parapet but features a hipped roof with one hipped dormer and small ball finials. At the rear of the right wing is a late 17th-century range made of rubblestone, which has two stories and an attic. It includes three windows with two and three-light ovolo moulded mullions, as well as some cyma moulded mullions. The rear of the left range has two sash windows. There is a flat-roofed 20th-century extension at the rear that is not included in the listing. The house has been subdivided into three separate living spaces. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Old Malthouse receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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