Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26564988

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)