Maltings to West of Railway Station
MALTINGS TO WEST OF RAILWAY STATION, STATION ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385961
- Date first listed:
- 27-Oct-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Maltings to West of Railway Station
- Statutory Address:
- MALTINGS TO WEST OF RAILWAY STATION, STATION ROAD
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385961
- Date first listed:
- 27-Oct-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Maltings to West of Railway Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- MALTINGS TO WEST OF RAILWAY STATION, STATION 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:
- MALTINGS TO WEST OF RAILWAY STATION, STATION ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Tendring (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Thorpe-le-Soken
- National Grid Reference:
- TM1777921351
Details
TM 12 SE
1874/5/10003
THORPE LE SOKEN
STATION ROAD
(West side, off)
Maltings to west of Railway Station
II
Maltings. Built after 1874 but before 1878 by Robert Free, the maltings innovator, and originally comprising two halves, the western half for the production of crystal malt and the eastern half for pale malt, which are now joined. It is a linear plan maltings with kilns towards the centre of the range. Constructed of yellow brick with red brick dressings and slate roof. Three storeys, the bottom of which is semi-basement, and loft storey; 30 bays. Cambered openings with wooden ventilator windows. Each bay is separated from the next by brick piers with bosses of tie bars. Stringcourse and dogtooth cornice. The main south front has two weatherboarded lucams at attic level, doors (a right hand one with external wooden staircase), and an iron walkway at the east end. Two kilns are in the middle of the range with a steep pyramidal roof surmounted by wooden ventilating towers; a third kiln lies to the rear. Internally it is thought that the steeping pits survive, also the quarry tile malting drying floors, the kilns are reported to have wedge wire floors and the kiln ironwork is said to be by J R M Fitch of Lawford/Manningtree. Each half of the building would have originally operated independedntly. The steeping pits stood at the east and west ends with the material moving towards the kilns, the eastern block a malting in the traditional sense and the western block a crystallised malt plant. Crystal malt is not dried in a kiln but finished in a roasting cylinder, which explains the lack of a traditional kiln in the western part of the building. Malt was steeped over a period of three days in the eastern block and was then laid on the drying floors for a further four days. The kilns were all fired by anthracite and had wedge wire floors. Robert Free was a leading innovator within the industry and later developed the major works at Mistley. No other maltings showing the double use of crystal and pale malt so distinctively are known to survive.
Listing NGR: TM1777921351
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 471381
- 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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