Description

HERTFORD

TL3212SW MALTINGS MEWS
817-1/19/111 (North East side)
25/08/72 Nos.1-6 (Consecutive)
(Formerly Listed as:
WEST STREET
The Maltings)

GV II

Former maltings, now converted to housing. Early C19, enlarged
1855, converted and extended c1974 (architect John
Snellgrove). Yellow-brown stock brick, laid to Flemish bond,
with white-painted and black-stained weatherboarding to return
north end of block. Hipped old tiled roofs, north-east corner
with Welsh slated end incorporating conical kiln roof with
mortarboard cowl.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; main maltings 8 bays divided by shallow
projecting buttresses. Building refenestrated with multiple
wooden sashes with glazing bars during conversion, with
first-floor window projecting as box dormers above eaves line
on main north-south block. Glazed doors in west wall,
projecting wing at left (west) and end of kiln house has C20
sash windows ground and first floor.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: this maltings was in existence in 1830 when
shown on Turnor's Map (History of Hertford), but not in 1823-4
when Pigot's Directory was published. In 1855 the Nicholls
family opened a brewery on the adjoining site to the east,
behind No.6 West Street (qv). The Maltings was probably
enlarged at this date.
(The industrial archaeology of the British Isles: Branch
Johnson W: Industrial Archaeology of Hertfordshire: Newton
Abbot: 1970-: 42, 45).

Listing NGR: TL3236012391

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26559146

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)