Farmstead record DBN 220 - Farmstead: Malting Farm

Malting Farm, Debenham. 19th century farmstead and 16th century farmhouse. Regular courtyard full plan formed by working agricultural buildings. The farmhouse is attached to the agricultural range. Significant loss (over 50%) of the traditional farm buildings. Located within a loose farmstead cluster (S1-6).

Recorded as part of the Farmsteads in the Suffolk Countryside Project. This is a purely desk-based study and no site visits were undertaken. These records are not intended to be a definitive assessment of these buildings. Dating reflects their presence at a point in time on historic maps and there is potential for earlier origins to buildings and farmsteads. This project highlights a potential need for a more in depth field study of farmstead to gather more specific age data.

2014: Part of the current garage/workshop includes two bays with evidence for a third of a fine timber framed structure, which may be the original malting: suggested by the low height of the ground floor and where there is a plinth missing there appears to be the remains of a drying floor. There is no evidence for the 'steep' or its position (S7).