Description and History of Site:-
The building is of a single storey with rusticated stonework around doorways and entrances, above which is a hipped roof equipped with gabled loading doors and interesting roof trusses carried on cast iron feet to provide additional headroom, typical of local textile mill practice. The ground floor appears too tall when compared to usual malting practice, but documentary evidence suggests that there may have originally been an addition floor. The malt kilns were located at the Old Causeway end of the building and were demolished after malting had ceased, in order to make way for cottages. The land on which the maltings was erected once formed part of the Wharf Mill estate, and may well have been erected some time after 1820 when John and William Crowther, corn millers, purchased the mill and converted it for the purpose of milling. Stanley Street Maltings can clearly be seen on a map of Warley Township prepared in 1838. An abstract of title dated 1879 indicates that by a deed of 13 May 1861, two houses in Stanley Street and the main street of Sowerby Bridge, one used as a post office, were sold to John Naylor of Warley, common brewer; one of these properties later became the Engineers beerhouse, located immediately to the north of the maltings, only recently closed for business. During 1865, the maltings and drying kiln were included in the valuation of Wharf Mill, but in December 1885 it had been sold to William Whitworth who occupied part of the premises as a cabinet maker's and joiner's shop, the remainder being unoccupied. Whitworth mortgaged the property to John Hoyle during 1886, whence it eventually passed via the latter's executors to Albert Lewis Washington of Willow Drive, Sowerby Bridge, an engineer who used it as a workshop. Horace Hayden Brook, a joiner, was the next owner from 1934 until 1953 when Reginald Lumb of Halifax, manufacturing chemist purchased it. More recently it was again used as a joiner's shop prior to its re-opening in late 2015 as a micro-brewpub named the Hogshead.

Further Reading and References:-
West Yorkshire Archive Service, Calderdale, SM:2-23 and 56-84; various rating valuations.

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Key Words :- maltings malt house joiners workshop engineering workshop public house

Viewing the Site :- May be viewed from Stanley Street, though the interior may be inspected by patrons of the Hogshead brewery and public house.

Address :- Stanley Street, Sowerby Bridge, West Yorkshire, HX6 2AF
Grid Ref :- SE 06329 23698
Co-ordinates :- Lat 53.709668 , Long -1.905593
Local Authority :- Calderdale Council
Pre 1974 County :- Yorkshire - West Riding
Site Status :- Site extant - Protected status unknown
Site Condition :- Site in alternative industrial use
Site Dates :- Pre 1838 -
Record Date :- 5 December 2016

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