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Description: Home Farm Building No. 9 Malthouse

Address: Home Farm Building 9 Kirklees Park Mill Hill Lane Clifton Brighouse Calderdale

Grade: I

Group detail: Kirklees Park, Kirklees Priory

Full description:
Malthouse. Late C17. Hammer-dressed stone, stone slate roof. L-shaped in plan. 3 storeys and attic. Weathered plinth, string courses to each floor, hoodmoulds with straight returns to 3rd floor windows and attic. Quoins, coped gables with kneelers and base for finial to roof apex. Gables have cart entries with 4-centred arched lintel with composite jambs. East gable has receeding double chamfered mullioned windows over doorway of 4, 3 and 2 lights. Right hand return wall has doorway with 3 centred arched lintel and composite jambs and double chamfered mullioned windows of 3 lights to ground floor and 2 lights to 1st and 2nd floors with external stair to segmental arched doorway to 1st floor. Interior: King post roof with heavy slightly cambered tie beams. Basket arched doorway to cross-wing which has fireplace with Tudor arched lintel spandrels and chamfered surround. Main long range has heavy spine beams cut through at first floor revealing haunched tenon joint to equally heavy joists. Walls are plastered and original lime-ash floor laid on rushes or lathes survive to upper floors as does orange Plimsoll line running round the building under windows to indicate maximum floor loadings. A remarkably rare and complete survival.