The Old Bakery

PURLEIGH PURLEIGH STREET TL 80 SW (north side) 1/103 The Old Bakery GV II

House and ancillary buildings. Early C18, extended in early C19. Timber framed, partly plastered, partly tile-hung, partly clad with red brick in Flemish bond, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. Ancillary buildings weatherboarded with slate roof, and of red brick in Flemish bond roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 3 bays facing S with central stack, originally forming a lobby-entrance (now blocked). Extended to right by one bay, with parallel range to rear, and one rear stack, in early C19. C19 brick stable block to right, converted to a bakehouse, originally freestanding, later connected to house by weatherboarded link. 2 storeys. 3-window range of early C19 sashes of 12 lights, with crown glass. Front elevation hung with plain and convex-edged tiles. Right return of brick, with on the ground floor one early C19 sash of 16 lights, and on the first floor one early C19 sash of 12 lights. Flush 4-panel door in right return. 2 wood-burning hearths, reduced for C20 grates. Chamfered transverse beams. The stable block has one C20 casement on the ground floor, and on the first floor one C19 casement and one blocked window aperture. Halved door. It contains a coal-fired side-flue baker's oven, c.1890, which was in commercial use until 1959.

Listing NGR: TL8434701991