Bass Maltings

I'd have loved to get closer to these impressive grade 2 listed buildings but without getting into trouble it would be very difficult, there are so many blip opportunities just on the outside, never mind inside.

The maltings were built between 1892 and 1905; they consist of eight red brick pavilions with a massive square tower and slender chimney in the centre. The total frontage is of about 1000 feet. In 1976 one of the pavilions caught fire and spread to the tower and a further two pavilions.

Remains associated with a railway serving the maltings complex were uncovered during trial trenching on land to the west of the main buildings. A concrete culvert was also seen, although its full extent and function remain unknown.

The maltings were built for for Bass, Ratcliff and Gretton of Burton on Trent and were designed by H.A. Couchman. They are the largest maltings complex in the country outside Burton. They closed in 1960, and the two Robey engines were transferred to museums. 'For sheer impressiveness little in English industrial architecture can equal the scale of this building.'

While walking there, there was a quite a few planes going past, and as I have a 'thing' for old fashioned looking planes I just had to snap away.