The Bakery is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1962. A Victorian Shop.

The Bakery

WRENN ID
wild-gravel-birch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 June 1962
Type
Shop
Period
Victorian
Address
The Bakery, 12, Church Ponds, Castle Hedingham
OS grid reference
TL 784 356
Coordinates
51.99068, 0.59824
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Bakery is a shop with living accommodation, primarily dating from the 19th century but possibly having earlier origins. It features a red brick facade with pilaster strips on either side and a red plain and ornate tiled roof. The building is two storeys high and has three vertically sliding sash windows, each with keystones above gauged brick arches. The left and center ground floor shop windows are fitted with two-light fanlights, with a door situated between them. This recessed door is part-glazed and topped with a fanlight, and it has reveal panels and a moulded surround, supported by scroll brackets beneath a moulded flat canopy.

Local climate

The Bakery sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% 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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