Former Malthouse at The Herbert Arms is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 7 June 2011. Malthouse.

Former Malthouse at The Herbert Arms

WRENN ID
broken-rampart-gorse
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
7 June 2011
Type
Malthouse
Address
Former Malthouse at The Herbert Arms, Kerry
OS grid reference
SO 146 900
Coordinates
52.50126, -3.25803
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The former malthouse at The Herbert Arms is a two-storey building constructed from coursed stone rubble with a corrugated sheet roof. It has planked doors, and most windows are timber frames set in stone openings. The building has a short L-plan, with the main range oriented north-south and a kiln wing attached to the southeast corner.

Access to the ground and first floors is provided by two doorways located in the northeast corner of the main range. The ground floor door features a small flanking window, and both have large stone lintels. There is a similar door and window at the southeast corner, which leads to the ground floor of the kiln wing. The north elevation includes a single window in the gable, while the west elevation has three windows, with only the outer windows on the ground floor. The south elevation features one window in the gabled section and another ground floor window to the right side. The east elevation of the kiln wing has two windows on the first floor, with the left window retaining a mullion and the right window being smaller and positioned higher.

The ground floor of the malthouse has been converted into a changing room. The kiln remains intact in the side wing, featuring a small ante room and the main kiln, which retains its brick vaulting and fire base. The first floor of the malthouse is a single open space with exposed twin king-post roof trusses and a timber frame partition separating it from the kiln. Fragments of the drying floor are still visible in the side walls above the kiln.

Local climate

Former Malthouse at The Herbert Arms sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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