Grays House Hadlow Bakery

Grays House and Hadlow Bakery comprise two houses and a shop, dating to the late 18th century, with alterations from the 19th and 20th centuries. The buildings are constructed of red brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with decorative burnt headers. The gable ends are clad with peg tiles at attic level, while a service building has weatherboarding. Brick stacks and chimneyshafts are present, some dating to the 19th century, topped with peg-tile roofs.

The buildings form a terrace of three houses, facing north-west onto the street. The right-hand house (Grays House) is now occupied by Lloyds Bank, featuring a one-room wide, two-room deep plan with a stack projecting from the right end wall and a front entrance leading to a hall and staircase. The central house mirrors this plan. The left-hand house, originally likely mirroring the central house, was converted into a shop in the early 19th century. An axial stack between the bakery house and the shop sections serves back-to-back fireplaces. The bakery itself is located in outbuildings to the rear of the shop, with a service block projecting to the left (north-east) and set back from the front terrace.

The main block is two storeys high with attics in the roof space. The front elevation has a regular three-window arrangement, one window to each unit. Grays House features late 19th-century six-pane sash windows and a contemporary top-glazed nine-panel door. Other windows are tripartite sashes with central nine-pane sashes. A heavily restored early 19th-century shop window is on the ground floor left, featuring a timber frame with pilasters and a moulded entablature, and has glazing bars. The doorway of the bakery house, alongside the entrance to Grays House, has a part-glazed four-panel door. Both doorways and the windows to either side are topped with low segmental arches. A tall mansard roof, half-hipped at each end, incorporates six flat-roofed dormer windows.

A lower service block, to the left and set back, has garage doors on the ground floor and a single first-floor casement window with glazing bars. The roof is gable-ended.

Grays House and Hadlow Bakery form a group with the lodges and gateway of Hadlow Castle.