The Old Bakery is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1980. Bakery. 1 related planning application.
The Old Bakery
- WRENN ID
- hollow-vestry-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1980
- Type
- Bakery
- Address
- The Old Bakery, High Street, Hempstead, CB10 2PE
- OS grid reference
- TL 634 380
- Coordinates
- 52.01722, 0.37985
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Bakery is an early to mid-19th century timber-framed and plastered house located on the south-east side of Hempstead High Street. It is a two-storey building with a three-window front. The windows are double-hung sash windows with glazing bars. The ground floor originally contained two shop windows, also with glazing bars. The roof is covered in slate.
Local climate
The Old Bakery sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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