The Old Bakery is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 November 1957. House, public house, shop.
The Old Bakery
- WRENN ID
- guardian-loft-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 November 1957
- Type
- House, public house, shop
- Address
- The Old Bakery, Ashford Road, Orlestone
- OS grid reference
- TR 000 334
- Coordinates
- 51.06526, 0.8543
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Bakery is a Grade II listed building located on Ashford Road in Orlestone. Originally constructed around 1500, it has served as a house, a public house, and a shop, with extensions made in the 20th century. The building features a timber-framed structure with exposed painted brick and plaster infill, topped by a plain tiled roof. It follows a Wealden hall house plan with four framed bays and stands two storeys high on a plinth. The building has jetties on both the left and right sides supported by dragon posts, with recessed central bays and eaves that extend across on arched braces. The roof is hipped, with a cluster of stacks on the right side.
On the first floor, there are wooden casements on the left and right, along with two central four-light frieze windows. The ground floor includes a multi-paned bay window on the left, two central glazing bar sash windows, and a sash window on the right. There are panelled doors to the centre left and left, as well as a half-glazed door and a picture window to the left in a 20th-century lean-to outshot. The building was formerly known as the Six Bells Inn and later served as a Post Office and Bakery.
Local climate
The Old Bakery sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1995
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