The Old Bakery

The Old Bakery is a house and shop located on the west side of The Square in Elham. It dates from the 18th century or earlier, with alterations made in the 18th century. The building is timber framed, featuring applied or renewed framing with rendered infilling on the front elevation. It has a plain tile roof and stands two storeys high with a garret. The front has a painted flint plinth with brick dressings, and there are posts flanking the windows, with broadly spaced studs between. The façade is divided horizontally into three panels by rails. The roof is half-hipped to the left and connects with Elven House on the right.

To the left, there is a projecting brick gable-end stack with a moulded cornice and a partly tile-hung broad brick flue. The windows are irregularly arranged, featuring one pair of nine-pane sashes on the left and another pair on the right. There is a 19th or early 20th-century shop window at the right end of the ground floor. The central entrance consists of a half-glazed and panelled door, with a plain door up three steps to the right.

On the left gable end, there is a two-storey lean-to with a painted brick ground floor, applied framing on the first floor, and tile-hung cladding on the first floor of the left gable end. There is also a rear lean-to to the left and a short two-storey rear wing to the right, which is tile-hung on the first floor and has a plain tile roof that is hipped to the rear. The interior has not been inspected.