Numbers 21 and 23 (The Old Bakehouse) is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1988. Houses.

Numbers 21 and 23 (The Old Bakehouse)

WRENN ID
winding-newel-jackdaw
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Huntingdonshire
Constituency
North West Cambridgeshire MP: Sam Carling (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 November 1988
Type
Houses
Address
Numbers 21 and 23 (The Old Bakehouse), Duck Street, Elton
OS grid reference
TL 085 940
Coordinates
52.53346, -0.4004
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Numbers 21 and 23, known as The Old Bakehouse, are two houses that were formerly a house, shop, and bakehouse, dating from the late 18th century or early 19th century. The buildings are constructed of coursed limestone rubble with freestone dressings and feature roofs made of Collyweston stone slates, along with some 20th-century imitation stone slates.

The south elevation shows that No. 21 has four ground floor and five first floor twenty-paned hung sash windows, along with a central six-raised and fielded panelled door topped by a rectangular fanlight. Freestone quoins suggest that there is an extension of two bays to the west. No. 23 has a boarded door and a large twenty-paned hung sash window to the right, as well as two twenty-four paned hung sash windows on the first floor. All openings are topped with stone lintels. The buildings have two brick gable end stacks and one ridge stack.

Inside, there are panelled doors and a large baking oven that remains intact, complete with a cast iron door.

Local climate

Numbers 21 and 23 (The Old Bakehouse) sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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