NHER 38193 (Monument record) - Site of Kerrison Road Malthouse

April 2002. Building Survey.
Initial survey of malthouse building and associated cottage immediately northeast of Norwich City Football Ground. These buildings were scheduled for demolition in advance of construction of the new south stand, hotel, car park and other amenities. Work undertaken as part of archaeological evaluation for Norwich City Football Club.
See report within (S1) for further details.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 2 June 2015.

April 2003. Building Survey.
Further building survey of former malthouse building including photographic survey and survey of previously unaccessible areas.
A stone plaque on the east wall had the inscription C.B./1824.
The overall plan had a long germination room, two furnaces/kiln towers and the maltster's cottage at the west end. The building was constructed of red bricks laid in English bond and there were two tiers of windows in the long side walls.
The malthouse was a surviving but altered example of a 19th century purpose built floor maltings. The ground floor would have been a germinating floor, which would have been likely to hold the steeping cistern(s), though no direct evidence for their position was found. The first floor of the building had been completely removed. It was probably a second growing floor as the loft there was used for storage. Little evidence for machinery relating to the use of the malthouse was found. A small belt shaft in the attic shows that some mechinisation tookplace, probably in the late 19th to early 20th centuries. There is no evidence for what power source was used.
Production came to an end and the building became Carrow Club house (between 1907 and 1911). At this time the brick butresses were proabably added, as well as additional buildings on the north-western and north-eastern sides. The cottage is a separate build to the rest of the structure, though it may be contemporary.
See report (S2) for further details (including information on the initial survey). The results of this work are also summarised in (S3).
The associated archive has been deposited with the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2016.197).
J. Allen (NLA), 12 June 2003 and Ruth Fillery-Travis (NLA), 13th March 2007. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 2 June 2015 and 21 June 2019.