The Malt House Coffee Shop

The Malt House Coffee Shop is a building of group value, dating from the 18th and 19th centuries, originally constructed as a maltings. The front block screens a small courtyard, with the much larger maltings block extending to the rear.

The front block is three storeys high and has three windows. On the top floor is a small sash window with one pane over one. Below that, on the first floor, is a six-pane sash window over six, and on the ground floor, a similar sash window that was formerly a door. A central feature is a wall rising to accommodate a camber-headed loading door on the top floor, with a raised parapet above, and a matching doorway on the first floor. A broad vehicle doorway is located below. To the right is a three-light casement window on the top floor, a tripartite sash window on the first floor, and a reproduction 19th-century style shopfront on the ground floor.

The rear elevation of the maltings block is constructed of coursed red sandstone rubble, with brick framed openings, and has a Welsh slate roof.

The building contains a small courtyard with visible brick walling, flanked by ranges now used as tearooms. Above the entrance is a 19th-century hoist and trapdoors. The large rear block is three storeys high. The lowest level features heavy beams and closely spaced joists, with a long central beam supported on iron columns, some originating from Bright Foundry, Carmarthen. The construction of the middle floor is similar. The top floor has low-set king-post roof trusses of varying patterns; possible evidence of fire damage is noted at the south-east end. The ground floor is said to retain a malting kiln, including a rare brick vault and evidence of a perforated drying floor.