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Little Malt House

A Grade II* Listed Building in Crickhowell, Powys

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.8596 / 51°51'34"N

Longitude: -3.1355 / 3°8'7"W

OS Eastings: 321899

OS Northings: 218501

OS Grid: SO218185

Mapcode National: GBR F0.T4VG

Mapcode Global: VH6CH.LJR8

Plus Code: 9C3RVV57+RR

Entry Name: Little Malt House

Listing Date: 19 July 1963

Last Amended: 14 February 2024

Grade: II*

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 7250

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300007250

Location: Set back from the road behind front garden entered between plain rubble gate piers. The house occupies the right hand two bays of the frontage set between the Malt House and Upper House Farmhouse; pa

County: Powys

Town: Crickhowell

Community: Crickhowell (Crughywel)

Community: Crickhowell

Built-Up Area: Crickhowell

Traditional County: Brecknockshire

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History

One of a group of three houses which together once formed a mansion known as Rumsey Place. This appears to have originated in the mid-C16 as a storeyed hall house, remodelled and extended in the C17 to form a substantial house with main range and two wings enclosing a small courtyard. The Rumsey family established a maltings and brewery in the western part of the site, probably in the late C17 or early C18, presumably as part of a substantial farmstead. The family still owned the complex of buildings in the nineteenth century, but by the time of the Tithe Survey of 1844, the property had been split into two, with the malthouse and associated dwelling to the west, and a farmstead (Upper House) to the east. The granary and farm buildings continued the enclosure of the courtyard in front of the domestic range. These buildings were divided from 1920, with the C16 kitchen and the right-hand wing forming Upper House; and by WWII the parlour and hall of the C16 house and the left hand wing had become the Malt House; and the cross passage and service room being part of Little Malt House.

Exterior

Little Malt House forms the central section of the former mansion, occupying the central and right-hand bay of the 3-window main range, which is 2 storeyed with attic. Rubble walls, colour-washed to main front, with steep pitched slate roofs, with axial stacks to centre and right. Central entrance flanked by small-paned sash windows, with similar windows to first floor, and two dormer windows in gables with decorative bargeboards. Left hand bay is part of The Malt House.

Interior

Interior much rebuilt after fire damage but retains roof and other structural timbers which probably belong to the original C16 house. At ground floor level there is a remnant of a Georgian wattle partition and attached to this there is a surviving fragment of wooden screen. Slots in the beam above reveal that at one time this extended across the width of the ground floor and that its origin would have been as part of a wooden screen to the cross passage. On the ground floor there is also a broad segmental arch with capitals towards the rear of the cross passage.

Reasons for Listing

Included for its special architectural and historic interest as part of a mansion retaining good evidence of C16 and C17 origins. Group Value with the rest of the complex – The Malt House, Upper House, and the former granary.

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    Situated at the E end of a U-plan group of buildings; at right angles to and adjoining the Little Malt House; gable end set back from the road and front with low walled forecourt overlooking rectangul
  • II* The Malt House
    Set well back from the road and reached by a driveway to W or by the same S approach as the Little Malt House; walled garden to the W. The Granary adjoins to S and the Little Malt House to E; the hou
  • II Pigsty at Upper House Farm
    Situated in the farmyard to the E of, and adjoining, the farmhouse.
  • II* Grahame Amey Ltd., Furniture Workshop (formerly the Granary to the Malt House)
    Situated on rising ground with range at right angles to the road and adjoining the Malt House at rear; part with U-plan group of buildings.
  • II Granary at Upper House Farm
    Situated in the farmyard to the E of, and adjoining, the farmhouse.
  • II* Gazebo at The Malthouse
    At the N corner of the Malt House garden and with adjoining boundary walls.
  • II Webb's Yard Warehouse
    Opposite the farmyard of Upper House Farm with gable end to the street and overlooking car park to rear. Formerly part of the farm but sold in early C20.
  • II* The Bear Hotel
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