Maltings at Former Buckley's Brewery

Large industrial maltings with attached barley kiln. Local stone with dressed quoins and voussoirs, slate roofs with brick dentilled course to eaves. The maltings is 4-storeyed with basement, and 8 bays. Its SE elevation facing the river has two wide segmentally arched openings and a narrower arched doorway to the basement, then 8 small windows on each floor, with shallow arched heads with voussoirs and distinctive long skewback blocks. Minimal disturbance to the rhythm of these openings, some of which retain timber slats. North elevation is similarly detailed, and although there has been greater disturbance to the fenestration pattern, the original arrangement remains relatively clear. Some damage in eastern-most bay, including partial loss of gable wall. Barley kiln adjoins the western-most gable: a two storeyed structure, square in plan and with a pyramidal roof terminating in a truncated wooded cowl. Lower openings altered or inserted but original window with similar detail to that of malting range survives in the upper storey.

The building has the large open floor areas with relatively low ceilings which are characteristic of a floor maltings, and the main structure survives substantially intact, comprising two rows of cast-iron columns supporting timber cross beams on shaped bearers on each floor. Wooden floors largely survive, though missing in eastern bays where hoppers were later inserted. Kiln structure lost from barley kiln.