North Maltings
NORTH MALTINGS, WATTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1275399
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1992
- List Entry Name:
- North Maltings
- Statutory Address:
- NORTH MALTINGS, WATTON ROAD
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1275399
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1992
- List Entry Name:
- North Maltings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NORTH MALTINGS, WATTON ROAD
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:
- NORTH MALTINGS, WATTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ware
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 35470 14564
Details
WARE TOWN
TL3514NE WATTON ROAD 829-1/7/172 (South side) 24/02/92 North Maltings
GV II
Maltings. Circa late 1840s. Yellow stock brick in Flemish bond; east and west ends weatherboarded timber frame. Pantile roof with gabled ends; kiln clad in plain tiles. Long rectangular range with 3 maltings floors. The south front with 12 bays with brick pilasters, small segmental brick arch windows, further weatherboarded bays on left and right ends, the right (east) end with projecting weatherboarded gabled hoist housing. Truncated cone-shape kilns, clad in plain tiles, on north and south pitches of roof at west (left) end; the cowl is missing. INTERIOR: under kiln a 6 foot high tunnel across the building. Kiln has wire floors intact, supported on iron bars secured by 21 round oval tie-plates inscribed `CHAS.WELLS WARE'. Charles Wells manufactured in Ware ironworks for malting until about 1847. (Ware 25" to 1 Mile. Surveyed by the Ordnance Survey Department: 1851-; The Industrial Archaeology of the British Isles: Branch Johnson W: The Industrial Archaeology of Hertfordshire: Newton Abbot: 1970-: 179).
Listing NGR: TL3550114586
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 412403
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Branch Johnson, W, The Industrial Archaeology of Hertfordshire, (1970), 179
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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