The Maltings
THE MALTINGS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1328465
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1983
- List Entry Name:
- The Maltings
- Statutory Address:
- THE MALTINGS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1328465
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1983
- List Entry Name:
- The Maltings
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE MALTINGS
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 MALTINGS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Uttlesford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Canfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 59336 18089
Details
TL 51 NE GREAT CANFIELD CHURCH END 2/42 THE MALTINGS
GV II
Hall house with one crosswing, C15 and C17, altered in Cl9 and C20. Timber- framed, plastered, roof tiled. Hall aligned NW-SE with integral service end at SE. Floor inserted in hall, original crownpost roof rebuilt as clasped purlin construction to gain headroom, one dormer inserted, crosswing built or rebuilt with double hearth at junction of hall and crosswing, forming a lobby- entrance, all early C17. Some reconstruction at service end, undatable, involving rebuilding of side walls and roof. 2 storey crosswing, hall block single storey with attics. Crosswing roof hipped, hall gabled at SE. On ground floor, one C20 casement window, C20 door with early C19 hood, 2 C20 bay windows. On upper floor, one C20 casement window and 2 more in hipped dormers. Framing exposed internally at SE end only. Lower SE wall original, with curved tension bracing trenched outside studs, and grooves for sliding shutters. Side walls rebuilt, with primary straight bracing. One of a pair of twin service doorways with double ogee head exposed, the other possibly present within the plaster. Floor of service end supported on clamps pegged to wall (with original stair trap visible from below), indicating that there may not have been an upper storey originally. In roof of hall, original rafters trenched for crownpost construction, lightly smoke- blackened, but crownposts removed. Also, fragment of hollow-moulded timber with original red paint, re-used as a stud. T-plan stair NE of stack with early C19 banister. The name, The Maltings, derives from a former building on NW edge of site, recorded in tithe map and award of 1847, demolished.
Listing NGR: TL5933618089
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 352666
- 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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