Brandsby Agricultural Traders' Association

MALTON

SE780715 RAILWAY STREET 801-1/8/120 (East side) 03/11/92 Brandsby Agricultural Traders' Association

GV II

Formerly The Malton Biscuit Factory, now office and warehouse, incorporating probable former Derwent Navigation building. Derwent Navigation building early C18; Biscuit Factory c1887, with later alteration. Pink and cream mottled brick in English bond, on sandstone ashlar plinth; dressings of orange-red gauged brick; weather-boarded lucam. Extruded truncated stack of brick and stone, with stone weathering courses, at right end of slate roof; corrugated asbestos roof to boilerhouse. 4-storey 8-window main front, on low basement plinth, with 5-storey central lucam; 4-storey 3-window crosswing gable at left end; at right end, 1-storey 3-bay boilerhouse, with 1-storey former Navigation building attached further right; crosswing and boilerhouse fronts pedimented and projecting. Entrance in crosswing: panelled double doors beneath tall radial-glazed fanlight, to right of 2 radial-glazed windows, all with round arches of gauged brick, recessed beneath round-arched arcade. Main front basement has square-arched cellar openings. Loading doors on ground floor, and to lucam, some altered. Windows on upper floors of main front and crosswing are cross-windows, except where altered or blind. Raised first-floor sillband on first floor: stone sills to other windows. Moulded eaves cornice to main front and to pedimented crosswing gable. 2 lobed cruciform tie rod ends on each floor of crosswing, which has radial-glazed oculus in gable end. Left return: 4 storeys on low basement; 4 windows. Basement openings are square-arched. Ground floor is arcaded, with tally-window at right end. First floor sillband, and moulded eaves cornice. Boilerhouse: 3 arcaded bays with recessed round-arched openings now blocked. Moulded eaves cornice, with blocked oculus in gable end above. Right return: 1 storey, 3 windows. Round-headed windows recessed beneath round-arched arcade. Further right is 1-storey 2-bay pent outbuilding, with bricked-up round arches with stone keyblocks on piers with sandstone bases and sandstone imposts.

Listing NGR: SE7871371518