Former Bakehouse and Attached Outbuilding Approximately 10 Metres North West of Manor House is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1984. Bakery.

Former Bakehouse and Attached Outbuilding Approximately 10 Metres North West of Manor House

WRENN ID
woven-pavement-cream
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Oxfordshire
Constituency
Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 October 1984
Type
Bakery
OS grid reference
SP 582 019
Coordinates
51.71353, -1.15899
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The former bakehouse and attached outbuilding, located approximately 10 metres north-west of the Manor House, dates from possibly the 16th century and early 18th century. It is constructed of limestone rubble with some timber lintels and ashlar dressings, featuring an old plain-tile roof and brick stacks. The building is arranged in an L-plan.

The earlier 7-bay range running north-south has an uncertain function. The east front has two bays to the right that were formerly open-fronted but are now weatherboarded. There is a low entrance to the right of centre with double doors, and a further plank door to the left with two wood-frame unglazed windows above, one of which has four lights with diamond mullions. The roof is hipped to the right. The rear features two tiers of three small 3-light windows, some with heavy oak frames; the upper tier is unglazed. The lower centre window has concave-chamfered wood mullions, which are moulded internally, and old leaded lights that may be re-used.

The 18th-century bakehouse range runs east-west and is two storeys high. Its south front has three windows with leaded 3-light casements, flat stone arches on the ground floor, and a rubble plinth. The irregular north front includes a ground floor entrance and 20th-century steps leading to a first floor entrance.

Inside, the outbuilding roof features six trusses with two rows of clasped purlins; five of these are morticed for curved wind-braces, one of which survives, and all tie-beams are morticed for deep joists. The south end contains a large inserted stack serving the adjoining bakehouse. The bakehouse roof has four heavy trusses with a single row of clasped purlins. The ground floor has two spine beams supported on a central chamfered and moulded Samson-post. There is a large fireplace at the west end with a 19th-century brick segmental arch beneath a massive timber beam, while a second large fireplace at the east end has been mutilated.

Local climate

Former Bakehouse and Attached Outbuilding Approximately 10 Metres North West of Manor House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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