More information : East outbuilding. This is a subsidiary abbey building of uncertain attribution. It formed an L-shaped block of which the E-W range is still in use. The building is two-storeyed and dates from the second half of the 14th c; it formerly extended further to the west. (1) Figured in Hutchins under the name of the Malt House. (2) A stone building with a pointed archway on the southside and slit windows on the south and east sides. A large window with stone tracery is still extant high up on the east side. Now used as a wood store. See plan in Authy 2, SY 58 NE 35. (3) Shed and walling east of Abbey Farmhouse. The shed in rubble and ashlar and with pantiled roof is of 14th century origin with a good two-light window in east gable. There are various square headed slits in the east and south walls. It is partly of two storeys. The roof is probably 18th century. There are two 14th century doorways. Recess with ledge at SE. The walling stretching south has remains of windows and evidently formed part of a destroyed building. (4) Grade 2*.
SY 5785 ABBOTSBURY CHURCH STREET,EAST SIDE 10/17 The Malthouse, 5 metres east of the The Abbey 26.1.56 house and attached walling (formerly listed as shed and walling to east) GV I Former abbey building, possibly infirmary, traditionally called The Malthouse. C.1400 with c.C18 west gable wall. Building originally extended further west. Ashlar and rubble-stone walls. Buttress with 2 set-offs at south west corner. Clay Roman tile roof. No stacks, 2 storeys, originally, though now only ceiled at west end, 4 windows, irregular fenestration. C14 openings with later wooden framing, skewed loop-light at centre. 2-centred archway immediately west of south wall, of two moulded orders dying into the jambs. East part of this wall was formerly covered by the south wing and has a large opening with a square head of 3 chamfered orders, blocked. West of this is a blocked pedestrian doorway with pointed-segmental head. The east wall has 2 square-headed lights to the lower floor. Upper floor has a single late C14 window of two trefoiled lights, cross-transomed, rebated internally for shutters, and with a chamfered reve-arch. Interior: beam shelf on north and south walls at upper floor level. Vertical chases in the south wall probably for the wall-parts of the original roof. Attached west wall of south wing, running south for 60 metres and c.3.5 metres high. Openings north to south: single square-headed light; window of two trefoiled lights in a square head; doorway with a segmental-pointed head; three ranges of two single-light windows, set one above another, all these have square heads, except the southern on the ground floor, which has a trefoiled head. (5) |