Monument record MWX355 - Devenish No 3 Malthouse, Brewers Quay, Weymouth

Late 19th century malt house, No. 3 at the Devenish Brewery. Growing floors and barley storage demolished whilst the malt store was converted in the mid/late 1980s. Constructed of random uncoursed Portland stone with brick dressings, probably to two-storeys originally.

Late 19th century malt house, No. 3 at the Devenish Brewery. Growing floors and barley storage demolished whilst the malt store was converted in the mid/late 1980s. Constructed of random uncoursed Portland stone with brick dressings, probably to two-storeys originally. <1>

Former number three malt house built in 1878 and converted into housing during the mid-late 1980s. Little of the original building survives except the ornate brick frontage at one end but it was long and linear in plan with two storeys and more vernacular in style than malt house number two. Built of Portland stone with brick dressings, welsh slate roof and more recently asbestos cement roof, the building comprised two or three growing floors, barley storage and probably a flat bottomed steep, all of which were demolished in the conversion. The buildings conformed to the Ware pattern of storage at each end of the building away from the growing floors. Two linked kilns with pyramidal roof were recorded at the time of survey in 1995. <2>

<1> National Monuments Record, Unknown, Devenish Brewery, Spring Road, Brewers Quay, Dorset (Index). SWX9115.

<2> English Heritage, Building file BF090998: Malthouse No 3, Devenish Brewery (Index). SDO19000.

<3> Historic England, Historic England Archive, BF083341/2 (Index). SDO14738.

Malthouses 1,2,3 and 4, Brewer's Quay, Weymouth, Dorset: Comparison of Maltings 1, 2, 3 (partly demolished and converted) and 4, Brewer's Quay, Weymouth, Dorset

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1033357 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Mar 25 2024 11:04AM