Warminster Maltings: Difference between revisions
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
<big>'''Warminster Maltings Ltd''' | <big>'''Warminster Maltings Ltd,''' ''39 Pound Street, Warminster, Wiltshire BA12 8NN''</big> | ||
18c, altered and rebuilt in 1879 for the Morgan family of Maltsters in typical local materials. Pound Street Malthouse was owned by the firm Morgan/Beaven. The malthouse is reputed to be 18c but it was substantially remodelled in 1879 when under the direction of E S Beaven, nicknamed 'Barley Beaven', it became an academy of barley breeding and malting until 1941. Beaven began working for W F Morgan at Pound Street in 1878 and was responsible for kiln developments and barley breeding, for which he won a number of awards. His outstanding achievements in barley breeding earned him an honorary doctorate from Cambridge University. His most notable barley was the Plumage Archer which was introduced to British farmers in 1905 and became the mainstay of UK malting barley production for the next fifty years. Pound Street Malthouse retains Beaven's patented brick steeps and kilns. (Information from Historic England) | 18c, altered and rebuilt in 1879 for the Morgan family of Maltsters in typical local materials. Pound Street Malthouse was owned by the firm Morgan/Beaven. The malthouse is reputed to be 18c but it was substantially remodelled in 1879 when under the direction of E S Beaven, nicknamed 'Barley Beaven', it became an academy of barley breeding and malting until 1941. Beaven began working for W F Morgan at Pound Street in 1878 and was responsible for kiln developments and barley breeding, for which he won a number of awards. His outstanding achievements in barley breeding earned him an honorary doctorate from Cambridge University. His most notable barley was the Plumage Archer which was introduced to British farmers in 1905 and became the mainstay of UK malting barley production for the next fifty years. Pound Street Malthouse retains Beaven's patented brick steeps and kilns. (Information from Historic England) | ||
| Line 25: | Line 25: | ||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
<gallery> | |||
File:1. Steep.jpg|Steeping | |||
File:2. Water Filled Steep.jpg|Steeping | |||
File:3. Digging Out Steep.jpg|Digging out the Steep | |||
File:4. Transfer to Floors.jpg|Transfer to floors | |||
File:5. On the Floors.jpg|On the floors | |||
File:6. Levelling.jpg|Levelling | |||
File:7. Dragging.jpg|Dragging | |||
File:Throwing Malt.JPG|Throwing the malt | |||
File:Garden - 2002.JPG|The gardens | |||
File:Garden - 2025.jpg|The gardens | |||
File:Pound Street 1 - 2002.JPG|Pound Street | |||
File:Restoration Complete 2024.jpg|The completed restoration | |||
</gallery> | |||
Revision as of 20:00, 6 March 2025
Warminster Maltings Ltd, 39 Pound Street, Warminster, Wiltshire BA12 8NN
18c, altered and rebuilt in 1879 for the Morgan family of Maltsters in typical local materials. Pound Street Malthouse was owned by the firm Morgan/Beaven. The malthouse is reputed to be 18c but it was substantially remodelled in 1879 when under the direction of E S Beaven, nicknamed 'Barley Beaven', it became an academy of barley breeding and malting until 1941. Beaven began working for W F Morgan at Pound Street in 1878 and was responsible for kiln developments and barley breeding, for which he won a number of awards. His outstanding achievements in barley breeding earned him an honorary doctorate from Cambridge University. His most notable barley was the Plumage Archer which was introduced to British farmers in 1905 and became the mainstay of UK malting barley production for the next fifty years. Pound Street Malthouse retains Beaven's patented brick steeps and kilns. (Information from Historic England)
From the Warminster Maltings web site:
Situated in the Wiltshire town of the same name, on the western tip of Salisbury Plain, the Pound Street maltings has been continuously making malt for the brewing industry since 1855. Not only that, in defiance of all the 20th century technology which completely overwhelmed the malting industry in the 1960’s, Warminster Malt is still made the traditional way, by hand, on floors, almost totally unchanged from the day the maltings was originally commissioned.
- Article: "Warminster Maltings, Pound Street, Warminster" by Sandra Bates
- The Brewery History Society visited the site in July 2023. For more images of Warminster Maltings, see: Wadworths BHS AGM 20 July 2023
- Pound Street Maltings is a Grade II* (2-star) listed building. Details on the Historic England web page: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1036240?section=official-list-entry
Images of Warminster Maltings
-
August 2017 -
August 2017 -
August 2017 -
August 2017 -
August 2017 -
July 2023 -
July 2023
-
Steeping -
Steeping -
Digging out the Steep -
Transfer to floors -
On the floors -
Levelling -
Dragging -
Throwing the malt -
The gardens -
The gardens -
Pound Street -
The completed restoration
