Maltings Farmhouse (EHER 34350)

House and ancillary building, now a restaurant and flat. Built in the 15th century, and altered in the 16th and 17th century. It is timber framed, roughcast rendered and roofed mainly with handmade red clay tiles, partly with slate. Its plan is a two-bay hall facing NE with a 16th century axial stack in left bay, a two-bay service crosswing to left, three-bay parlour/solar crosswing to right, both projecting to rear.

Listed building description House and ancillary building, now a restaurant and flat. Built in the 15th century, and altered in the 16th and 17th century. It is timber framed, roughcast rendered and roofed mainly with handmade red clay tiles, partly with slate. Its plan is a two-bay hall facing NE with a 16th century axial stack in left bay, a two-bay service crosswing to left, three-bay parlour/solar crosswing to right, both projecting to rear. There is a 17th century internal stack at right side of right crosswing, and long 17th century extension or ancillary building beyond, now incorporated. There is a 19th century lean-to extension with slate roof to rear of hall. The main building has two storeys, the right extension is of one storey with attics. There are gablet hips at both ends of hall and at rear of both crosswings. The rear elevation (now used as an entrance elevation) has scattered 20th century fenestration and two 20th century doors. Shaped sprockets below eaves. The hall has a mid-16th century inserted floor comprising a transverse moulded beam and moulded joists of horizontal section with runout stops, a wide wood-burning hearth (of which the mantel beam has been replaced), and a roof raised in the 17th century. The left crosswing has a bridging beam with mortices for a former partition between two service rooms, plain joists of horizontal section jointed to it with unrefined soffit tenons, jowled posts in the middle and to the rear, a cambered central tie beam with one arched brace in situ, wall plates with edge-halved and bridled scarfs, and a roof altered in the 17th century. A former jetty to the front has been cut back to align with the front of the hall. Diamond mortices for an unglazed window, now blocked, in the left upper wall. The right crosswing has an original partition between the middle and rear bays, a chamfered binding beam, plain joists of horizontal section jointed with unrefined soffit tenons, jowled posts, and similar alterations to the roof and jetty. At the junction with the right extension is a bread oven, complete with door. The extension has a chamfered axial beam and plain joists of vertical section. In the tithe award of 1841 this was the farmhouse of a farm of 58 acres, unnamed. <1> <2>