The Malthouse
THE MALTHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060528
- Date first listed:
- 06-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Malthouse
- Statutory Address:
- THE MALTHOUSE
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060528
- Date first listed:
- 06-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Malthouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE MALTHOUSE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE MALTHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Halse
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 14079 28006
Details
1. 5365 HALSE
ST 12 NW 6/291 The Malthouse
II 2. Malthouse late 18th century, datestone 1768. Local red sandstone rubble, main roof is tiled, with other roofs of slate. The plan is cruciform. The main malting floors run north-south, with a kiln at the south end. To the west is a loading bay, and to the east a second kiln. A derelict lean-to runs behind the main building on the east side. Interior of considerable interest. There are two long malting floors to the main building with the attic floor divided by wooden storage bins. The kiln floors are unusual, being paved with Hamstone slabs, perforated with relatively large holes. (Some additional cloth, gauze or grid must have prevented barley from falling into the fires below.) The short stairs from the attic down to the kiln floors can be lifted up on hinges to reveal shutes, for shovelling the malt down to the first floor of the main house. A similar device is used on the lower floor. The two small furnaces are complete, with hopper shaped flues to the kiln floors above. The steep tank has been incorporated into the ground floor 'room' of the east kiln. It is unusual to find a malthouse with two kilns. A datestone IH 1768 in the south gable ties in with a John Hancock, who is known to have been connected with the site. There are reference to a Hancock family living in Halse from 1653. The earliest reference to the family malting comes in 1790. This is an interesting survival of an 18th Century Malthouse, which with kilns and other features may be unique.
Listing NGR: ST1407928006
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 270502
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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