The Old Bakery

The Old Bakery is a house located on Cricketers Lane in Herongate, dating from the 18th century and extended in the 19th century. It features a timber-framed structure with weatherboarding and a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The building has three bays facing southwest, with a central stack that creates a lobby entrance. There are 19th-century single-storey lean-to extensions on the right and at the rear, along with a 19th-century single-storey wing at the rear right made of red brick in stretcher bond, also roofed with similar tiles. This wing was formerly a bakery and was converted to domestic use in the 20th century.

The house is two storeys tall. On the ground floor, there are two late 19th-century sash windows with four lights each, and to the right, a 19th-century shop window that has been converted in the 20th century. The first floor has two 19th-century casement windows. The central entrance features an early 19th-century door with six boarded flush panels, topped with a flat canopy supported by profiled brackets. There is a halved plain door leading to the former shop extension on the right. The eaves cornice at the front and both sides is moulded, and the roof is hipped.

Inside, the building has a jointed and pegged frame with primary straight bracing, made primarily of pine with some hardwood. The posts are unjowled. Each ground-floor room has a chamfered transverse beam of pine with lamb's tongue stops, and the joists are plastered to the soffits. The right ground-floor room features a plain wood-burning hearth, while the left room has a smaller plain hearth with a curved interior, both of which were repointed in the 20th century. In front of the hearth in the left room, there is a recessed cupboard with two profiled shelves and a fretted head, with the lower boarded panelled door still in place and the upper panelled door reported to be loose. The front door has original HL hinges, and there is an original moulded three-plank door at the foot of the stairs behind the stack. At the top of the stairs, there are serpentine flat balusters and a moulded pine rail. The right upper room contains an original three-plank door with a moulded wooden handle, a cupboard in front of the stack with an original door and HL hinges, and an early to mid-19th-century cast-iron grate.