The Oaks Restaurant And The Old Bakehouse

THORPE-LE-SOKEN

TM 1622-1722 8/89

HIGH STREET (south-west side)

The Oaks Restaurant and The Old Bakehouse

GV II

House, now restaurant, shop and 2 houses. C17/18, altered in C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 3 bays facing NE with stack in middle bay behind axis, forming a lobby-entrance. C18/19 extension to right, with internal stack at end. At left end, catslide extension to rear, with C20 extensions beyond. At right end, single-storey rear extension, roofed with red clay corrugated tiles, connecting main block to C19 bakehouse of red brick roofed with red clay pantiles. 2 storeys and attics. The Oaks Restaurant, forming the original building, has on the ground floor one C19 sash of 16 lights and a double splayed shopfront with C20 casements, and on the first floor 3 early C19 sashes of 16 lights with crown glass; C19 double doors each of 4 panels, the upper panels glazed, and C20 half-glazed door between the splayed bays. The Old Bakehouse, forming the right end, has on the ground floor a C20 shopfront, and on the first floor one C18/early C19 sash of 12 lights; C20 glazed door. Original winder stair in front of main stack. Chamfered longitudinal beams with lamb's tongue stops, with plain joists of vertical section. Primary straight bracing in walls. Wood-burning hearths, much altered.

Listing NGR: TM1785122384