Plan for town houses brewing at historic malting house
NEW LIFE is to be given to part of York’s historic brewing heritage with refurbishment plans underway.
A plan by York-based developer, Northminster to transform 19th century malting house, Clementhorpe Maltings, owned by City of York Council, into six family town houses is being submitted to the local authority.
Northminster, which has developed 20-acre Northminster Business Park on the outskirts of the city and has also applied its expertise to several York city centre residential schemes, is submitting the plans after having agreed with City of York Council to purchase and redevelop the property.
Plans to develop the historic Grade II Listed 10,000 sq ft malting house, one of only a few remaining in the country, includes creating an open three-storey com-munal entrance with a part-glazed roof used to display some of the original inte-gral machinery of the malting process. It is also planned to retain other original historic features such as timber trusses, malt bin doors and steel mesh used on the floors of the drying room as design features within the new homes.
Northminster development surveyor, Alastair Gill, said: “We’re very pleased to be moving forward with our proposals for this fascinating property.
“We have an excellent working relationship with City of York Council and believe we have come up with a highly-innovative scheme which preserves the history of the building while creating unique and attractive homes which respect the structure and surrounding neighbourhood in this popular area of York.”
According to research by York Archeological Trust, Clementhorpe Malting’s was built in the late 19th century and is known to have been used by Tadcaster Tower Brewery Company, which was formed in 1882 with the amalgamation of three lo-cal breweries, from 1895 until the late 1950s.
