Grays House Hadlow Bakery

HADLOW HIGH STREET (south end) TQ 63 49 7/80 Hadlow Bakery and Grays House

GV II

2 houses and a shop. Late C18 with some C19 and C20 modernisations. Flemish bond red brick with decorative burnt headers, gable ends are peg-tile hung at attic level, adjoining bakery service building is weatherboarded; brick stacks and chimneyshafts with some C19 chimneyshafts; peg-tile roof.

Plan: Terrace of 3 houses. Facing north west and built along the street. The right (south western) house is Grays House and now used by Lloyds Bank. Its plan is one-room wide and 2 rooms deep, stack projecting from right end wall and front entrance to left entrance hall and staircase. The rest of the block is Hadlow Bakery. The centre house is a mirror plan of Grays House. The left end house was probably mirror plan again but was converted to a shop in the early C19. Axial stack between the bakery house and shop sections serves back-to-back fireplaces. Bakery in outbuildings to rear of the shop with a service block projecting to left (north east) and set back from the terrace front.

Main block is 2 storeys with attics in the roofspace.

Exterior: Main block has regular 3-window front, one to each unit. The right bay (Grays House) has late C19 6-pane sashes and the doorway contains a contemporary top-glazed 9-panel door. Other windows are tripartite sashes containing central 9-pane sashes and ground floor left is a heavily restored early C19 shop window; timber frame with pilasters and moulded entablature and window has glazing bars. Bakery house doorway, alongside the one to Grays House, contains a part-glazed 4-panel door. Both doorways and the windows each side have low segmental arches over. Tall mansard roof is half-hipped each end and includes 6 flat-roofed dormer windows.

Lower service block to left and set back has garage doors across the ground floor and a single first floor casement with glazing bars. Roof is gable- ended.

Hadlow Bakery and Grays House form part of a group with the lodges and gateway to Hadlow Castle (q.v.).

Listing NGR: TQ6332049725