The Malt House and Malthouse Cottage
THE MALT HOUSE AND MALTHOUSE COTTAGE, 1-6, NOTTINGTON LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1096759
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1974
- List Entry Name:
- The Malt House and Malthouse Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- THE MALT HOUSE AND MALTHOUSE COTTAGE, 1-6, NOTTINGTON LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1096759
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 22-Dec-1997
- List Entry Name:
- The Malt House and Malthouse Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE MALT HOUSE AND MALTHOUSE COTTAGE, 1-6, NOTTINGTON LANE
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 MALT HOUSE AND MALTHOUSE COTTAGE, 1-6, NOTTINGTON LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Weymouth
- National Grid Reference:
- SY6610582598
Details
WEYMOUTH
SY6682NW NOTTINGTON LANE, Nottington
873-1/10/451 (West side)
14/06/74 Nos.1-6 (Consecutive) The Malt House
and Malthouse Cottage
(Formerly Listed as:
NOTTINGTON LANE, Nottington
The Malthouse, Malthouse Cottage)
II
Former malthouse and cottage, now 7 dwellings. Dated 1831.
Rubble with Portland stone dressings, rendered rear wall,
slate roof.
PLAN: main range has a long gabled roof, with a projecting
timber-clad hauling bay to the left of centre on a broad
cross-gable, and a lofty truncated conical vent towards the
right end; the former wheel was at this end of the building.
At the rear the ground rises considerably, and the main entry
is at first floor, with a basement floor with an area below;
rooms have also been made in the former roof space. Malthouse
Cottage, with lower roofline, is attached at the left-hand
end.
EXTERIOR: principal range has, to left of the projecting
hauling bay, 5 bays, the third of these formerly with hauling
doors, mainly 12- or 16-pane sashes, to flush wide stone
lintels with keystones; there are 2 blank bays to the second
floor. The ground-floor windows have keystones, which are
joined by a continuous slightly projecting plat band; between
bays 1 and 2 are wide plank doors with a 4-pane transom light,
with similar doors to bay 3, under a first-floor door. The
central coped gable with cross saddle has a projecting
horizontally timber clad gabled hauling way on brackets, with
a 16-pane light set low. Under this at ground floor is a plank
door with 4-pane transom light.
To the right are 3+5 bays with detailing as for the other
half; at second floor 1+5 sixteen-pane, at first floor a plank
door and two 12-pane, and ground floor with a square loading
panel under a 4-pane transom light, two 12-pane, a further
door with transom light and two 12-pane.
Centred to the end 5 bays are 2 high arched openings with
flush surround and projecting keystones over transom lights
with vertical bars and wide plank panelled fill with dividing
pier and impost; these have sills at approx 0.6m above the
road level. Above the arches is a worn diamond-shaped
datestone inscribed 'GNS 1831', below a small square panel.
The wide return gable has one paired 12-pane above 2 similar,
with a coped gable to ball finial.
The rear has been arranged for modern occupation, with 3
deep-set paired doors, approached by bridges, and flanked by a
small single- and large 2-light casement, and with paired
12-pane lights to the lower ground floor. The roof has a
series of 10 lay-lights.
At the S end is Malthouse Cottage, slightly set back, in an
L-plan with a C20 gabled porch inserted in the re-entrant
angle. The hipped front, with large flush quoins, has a C20
casement over a 12-pane sash, and the long C20 return wing has
a small 3-light at the ground floor and a coped gable.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
(RCHME: Dorset: South-East: London: 1970-: 360).
Listing NGR: SY6610582598
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 467770
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset II South East, (1970), 360
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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