By tradition this building was the first home of Benjamin Huntsman before he moved to larger works at the site known as Huntsman's Gardens. 1851 50 inch to the mile mapping shows a 'malthouse' to the rear of the property, the outline of which still forms the footprint of the present car park. Some heavily altered walling on the west side of this car park contains much vitrified brick and fragments of slag and crozzle although this is clearly reused material (site visit by the project officers on 24 March 2005).