The Old Maltings

A listed maltings turned into sixty two flats over workshops, keeping the kiln and the loading doors.

The Old Maltings, a disused Victorian maltings with its pyramid kiln, behind hoarding showing the proposed scheme
The maltings kiln rising above the timber hoarding that carries the printed render

Place

Millrace

Stage

Planning

Type

Mixed use

Homes

62

Area

7,600 sq m

Completion

2029

Partners

Vantage Capital

The maltings stopped work in 1981 and has been empty since. It is listed, it leaks, and two developers have walked away from it. We bought it in 2026 with Vantage Capital and a conservation officer on the team from the first week.

The kiln stays. The loading doors on the north elevation stay and become the entrances to six workshops at ground level, with flats in the grain floors above.

What we kept

Ninety per cent of the existing structure retained, including the kiln.

The empty malting floor inside, cast iron columns receding, a surveyor's tripod and hard hat on the boards

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