The Bakery Restaurant

The Bakery Restaurant is a restaurant and flat that likely originated as an open hall house in the late 15th century. It features a late 16th-century inserted chimneystack and a ceiling that was refronted in brick in the 18th century, although some timber-framing is still visible, particularly on the first floor of the left-hand part, which has two large down braces and remnants of a jetty. The ground floor is underbuilt in painted brick, with a projecting 18th-century bay faced with mathematical tiles, a hipped roof, and a 16-pane sash window. The right-hand side has a brick front, while the ground floor includes a penticed brick and tiled extension with 19th-century windows. The roof is tiled and features a central brick chimneystack, along with two hipped dormers with casement windows.

On the first floor, there is one original four-light mullioned window, a 20th-century four-light casement, and two additional 20th-century casements on the right-hand side. The ground floor has two modern doors and windows. Inside, there is a stone cellar with a four-centred arched door that has moulding. Embedded in the left side of the ground floor wall is the top of the stone medieval market cross from the town, which features a carved crucifixion and part of a figure. The ground floor also retains entrances to a buttery and pantry with roll moulding, and the former open hall has a late 16th or early 17th-century stone fireplace with a wooden lintel, plain spandrels, and a brick rear wall. Upstairs, the building showcases jowled upright posts, two tiers of arched braces, and two octagonal crownposts with four headbraces to the collar beam. The high-quality features of this building suggest it may have originally served a specialized purpose.