The Old Bakery

WOOLPIT GREEN HILL TL 9762 5/137 The Old Bakery (previously listed as The Bakery, The Street) 15.11.54 GV II House and restaurant, formerly bakery. Circa 1550 with encasing of late C18 or early C19. 2 storeys. 3 windows, plus 2 dummy windows. Timber-framed, encased in late C18/early C19 red brick (now painted). Concrete plaintiled roof. Two end chimneys: that to left is of C16 narrow buff bricks, that to right a rebuilt shaft of C17 red brick. C19 small-pane casements with cambered heads. A c19 boarded entrance door, and another 2-panelled. A 2- cell end-chimney house, with a number of original features: in the hall is an exposed 1st floor of roll-moulded beams and joists. An open fireplace with deep double-ogee moulded fireplace. Evidence for a longwall jetty to the street frontage. A repositioned wainscotted cross-passage screen with chamfered framing. A blocked window with roll-moulded mullions. Altererd twin service doorways. A reset doorway with 4-centred arch. The single service room has good unchamfered floor joists.

Listing NGR: TL9739662371