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1 June 2022
Snape Maltings concert hall in Suffolk given
Grade II* listing
Hall is home to Aldeburgh festival of music and arts, founded by Benjamin
Britten, which opens on Friday
The concert hall, which was opened in 1967, has been granted listed status. Photograph: Stella
Fitzgerald/Historic England Archive/PA
Harriet Sherwood Arts and culture correspondent
One of the world’s finest acoustic concert halls that was converted from a 19th-century
malthouse has been given Grade II* listing by the government.
Snape Maltings concert hall is the home of the Aldeburgh festival, founded by the
composer Benjamin Britten in 1948. This year’s 24-day festival of music and arts opens
on Friday.
The building was originally one of the largest malthouses at Snape, from where barley
was sent to brewers in London and Newcastle along a branch line of the East Suffolk
Railway built for the growing industrial enterprise.
