The Bakehouse

KILBY SP69 NW MAIN STREET (North Side)

2/42 No. 30 (The Bakehouse)

31.3.81

GV II

Farmhouse, outbuildings and cottages, late C18 to early C19. Farmhouse faces street, brick with concrete tiled roof, possibly heightened in the later C19. 2 storeyed, 2 unit plan with central 6 panelled door in slight architrave with paired console brackets. 3 light casement windows flank it on each floor. Small single-storeyed wash house to right with Swithland slate roof. Rear wing recessed and advanced to the west, with upper Gothick lancet beneath drop ended hoodmould in gable end and 2 horizontally sliding sash windows in the long elevation. Behind this a parallel rear wing continues as outbuildings, formerly pig styes, and at right angles to this are 2 cottages. These are brick with Welsh slate roofs. One and two unit plans. The right hand cottage is of two units with doorway to right, and 3 light casement window to its left, all with cambered brick heads. Upper windows are 2 light horizontally sliding sashes. Axial stack. The other cottage is a single unit with doorway to right, 2 light casement to ground floor and horizontally sliding sash window above. Lower roof with gable end stack. Inner face of former pig styes have 3 doors now made into windows and 3 light horizontally sliding sash windows above. Inner rear wing of house has a central doorway in moulded wood architrave with canopy on console brackets.

Listing NGR: SP6206295412