The Old Bakery is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1983. House, shop. 3 related planning applications.
The Old Bakery
- WRENN ID
- dark-outpost-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire MP: Olivia Bailey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 November 1983
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- The Old Bakery, Bath Road, Woolhampton, RG7 5RE
- OS grid reference
- SU 572 667
- Coordinates
- 51.39731, -1.17797
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Bakery is an 18th-century house and shop situated on the south side of Bath Road, Woolhampton. The building is constructed of red brick with an old tile roof, featuring an end stack to the right and a central ridge stack. It has two storeys and four bays, with glazing bar sashes, each having exposed wooden boxes and segmental heads. A large 18th-century shop window is located on the left side, with ten lights and a wooden surround. The second bay from the left contains a six-panelled door, topped with a rectangular fanlight and a segmental pediment. The door has a plain surround, and a flat hood supported by wrought iron brackets projects above.
Local climate
The Old Bakery receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 2022
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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