The Malt Kiln, Including Former Maltster's Cottage

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SE 8000-8100 OWSTON FERRY NORTH STREET (east side)

21/142 The Malt Kiln, including former Maltster's cottage

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Maltings and cottage, now 2 dwellings. 1780 for Cornelius Sandars with riverfront addition of c1840. Renovations and conversion to dwellings 1976- 80. Yellow-orange brick to C18 section; red brick to C19 section. Pantile roofs. U-shaped on plan: original L-shaped range has rectangular malting shed of 10 internal bays, west gable end to street, with 2-room, central lobby-entry maltster's cottage adjoining street front, and malting kiln in angle; later 3-bay river front at right angles to east. 2 storeys with basement. North side: 5-bay C18 section with single-bay addition to left, and pilaster buttress between builds. 4 small segmental-arched basement hatches, 2 with iron bars. Flight of iron steps up to central ground-floor entrance with two-fold board door beneath timber lintel, flanked by pairs of C20 2-light casements in original openings beneath segmental arches. C20 stuccoed panel at first-floor level to right with faded painted company name. First floor: central 2-fold board door beneath timber lintel and weatherboarded gable with projecting crane hoist; pairs of C20 2-light windows in original openings beneath soldier arches. Dentilled brick eaves cornice. Stone-coped gable to right. Roof hipped to left. Left return forms east river front with 3 first-floor windows. Blocked segmental-headed basement openings, steps up to timber loading platform in front of central segmental-arched entrance with C20 glazed door, flanked by single 6-pane centrally-pivoted casements; circular tie-bar ends and large X tie-bar end at first-floor level, 3 similar first-floor windows. Painted company name to right:

W GLEADELL & SONS Ltd CORN MERCHANTS

Dentilled brick eaves cornice. Roof hipped to right. Left gable end has single similar windows to each floor. West street front: twin gabled ranges of maltings to left and adjoining lower 2-storey Maltster's cottage to right. To left: central segmental-arched basement hatch flanked by C19 inserted louvred hatches; ground-floor board door to right beneath segmental arch, with 2-light segmental-headed casement to left; faded painted company name at first-floor level, pair of similar first-floor windows, single small attic window. Cottage section to right has single 4-pane sash in flush wooden architrave beneath segmental arch. Twin gables with parapet to central valley, stone-coped with shaped kneeler to right. South front: cottage has 2 first-floor windows, glazed 4-panel door beneath segmental arch, flanked by 4-pane sashes in flush wooden architraves with sills beneath segmental stretcher arches, similar first-floor sashes beneath flat arches, dentilled brick eaves cornice, central axial stack, stone-coped gables. Adjoining kiln section, lowered to single storey in C20, has original central heavy board door with sliding ventilation hatches, flanked by single original wooden ventilators, beneath C20 glazed roof. 2-window section of main range to right has ground-floor board door beneath segmental arch, and windows similar to north side. Interior. Main range has heavy beams, with central wooden piers to basement and ground floor; steeping tank to basement beneath C19 section, plaster ground floor (former malting floor), tiled first floor (former dressing floor); king-post roof with raking struts and tenoned-and-keyed staggered butt purlins. Kiln has round-headed arch to oven with C19 cast-iron doors by Kings of Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, flanked by ventilation chambers; re-set roasting floor above with glazed perforated tiles by Stanley Brothers of Nuneaton, and original iron framework for former roasting floor above. Cornelius Sandars, the father of the local benefactor Frances Sandars, founded here the company which later became Sandars and Paul, Maltsters. Malting ceased here c1926. A prominent riverside building with original features sympathetically incorporated in the present dwellings. One of few maltings surviving from this period in the Lincolnshire-Humberside region.

Listing NGR: SE8153900258

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