Woodford Halse
File Book 021 : YR 50
Old Malt House and Methodist Church.
Old Malt House, Farndon Road, Hinton in 1992. Now demolished.
Originally the 19th Century Methodist Church.
Nothing appears to be known about Hinton Malt House until the Methodists moved from Farndon Mill in 1861. They left in 1876. It is known that there was a Primitive Methodist Society in Hinton in 1842. This is recorded in the Circuit Statistics book for 1842 – 51.
The malt-house at Hinton was situated next to the present 28 Hinton Road – at various times the home of Richard Sewell, blacksmith, and “Stowe’s Bakery”. It may have been an earlier house which had been converted for malting – in its later days it showed no sign of having had the louvred tower which normally contained the kiln. A date stone read 1828.
The malt-house was demolished in 1992, the stones being used to extend a cottage in Eydon.
