Listed Building record MWX358 - Devenish No 1 Malthouse, Hope Street South, Weymouth

Devenish Brewery No.1 malt house, built before 1864 in the vernacular style. Built of Portland stone on a single storey L-shaped plan, the building comprised a wide growing floor under M shaped Welsh slate roof. Barley was stored in a cross range at the south end while kilns and malt storage was kept in a wing beyond. The building conforms to the Ware pattern with storage at each end of the building away from the growing floors rather than over them. In the roof space were another two growing floors. The two kilns were separate with pyramidal roofs and at the time of survey in 1995 these structures survived along with the drying floors and flat bottomed steep. The building was put forward in a proposal for conversion following this survey. <1>

An early-mid 19th century malt house built of Portland stone ashlar with rubble and brickwork, also some rendering, and with slate roofs. The building comprises malting floors on 2 storeys, laid out in parallel ranges and at the time of survey contained kiln drying floors and evidence of a couch frame. <2>

<1> Historic England, Historic England Archive, BF083341 (Index). SDO14738.

Devenish No. 1 Malthouse, Hope Street South, Weymouth

<1.1> 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

<2> Department of the Environment, 14 June 1974, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Borough of Weymouth and Portland 1974, 873-1 (Scheduling record). SWX1839.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 542608 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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