Malthouse (Warehouse) (EHER 15022)

Malthouse built 16th to 17th century, with 20th century fenestration. Timber-framed, partly weatherboarded, partly faced in brick, with tiled roof. Now used as a warehouse.

February 1973. Grade II listed. A timber-framed and part weather-boarded, part brick-faced malthouse, now used as a warehouse. It is possibly of 16th-17th century origin, but now has 20th century fenestration (metal casements) and is two storeys. The roof is tiled, hipped at the east and west ends. There is a small gabled loft hoist in the centre of the south front and a conical oast house on the north-east corner. <1> See photos <2> <3>. Two storey malthouse converted to flats. The south elevation has a central weather-boarded seven bay range with two brick-built blocks of two bays at either end. Hipped roof covered with small peg tiles and a wooden louvered ridge ventilator at the west end. The gable in the middle of the south front may have been used as a loft hoist and the small windows to either side are characteristic features of a drying floor. A brick-built conical kiln stands on the northeast corner of the building and as part of the conversion an extension has been added to the north. Barley would have been steeped at the eastern end of the building, the weather-boarded central range contained the drying floors and once kilned, the malt was stored in the brick-built block to the west. One of the best surviving examples of a small-scale malthouse in Essex. The building retains its external integrity and the process flow can be deduced from the surviving remains. The entry in the List description dates the building to the 16th and 17th century, and if this information is correct then this is one of the earliest surviving examples in the county. <4> See also <4>. Original HER entry merged with NRHE data transfer.