BAIRD'S MALTHOUSE

BAIRD'S MALTHOUSE, 17-20, SYDNEY BUILDINGS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1395233
Date first listed:: 21-Mar-1972
List Entry Name:: BAIRD'S MALTHOUSE
Statutory Address:: BAIRD'S MALTHOUSE, 17-20, SYDNEY BUILDINGS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1395233
Date first listed:: 21-Mar-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: BAIRD'S MALTHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: BAIRD'S MALTHOUSE, 17-20, SYDNEY 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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: BAIRD'S MALTHOUSE, 17-20, SYDNEY BUILDINGS

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: ST 75825 64763

Details

SYDNEY BUILDINGS 656-1/42/1620 (West side) Nos.17-20 (Consec) Baird's Malthouse 21/03/72

GV II

Malthouse, now offices. Mid C19, altered C20. MATERIALS: Squared limestone rubble, half-hipped slate roof with two ridge vents; kiln with slate roof and weather boarded vent. PLAN: Rectangular plan. EXTERIOR: Single, windowless, storey to street; two storeys to rear. Thick coped walls to front and rear rise to truncated pediments over half-hipped roof with plain segmental arches to C20 double central doors, to rear flight on steps down to platform with C20 windows to two semicircular arched openings to lower ground floor. Former kiln to left square plan with pyramidal slate roof, tapered weather boarded vent at apex and two semicircular arched openings with C20 windows to ground floor. INTERIOR: Not inspected. Survey drawings by John Mosse ARIBA in the National Monuments Record of 1972 show an eight-bay, three-storey interior to main building carried on cast iron columns beneath a wide queen post truss roof. HISTORY: One of the more notable survivals of canal-based industry along this section of the Kennet and Avon Canal, opened in 1810, this building was erected for Hugh Baird and Sons, maltsters.

Listing NGR: ST7582564763

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Legacy System number:: 510646
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.