The Old Bakehouse

The Old Bakehouse is a house dating from the 17th century, which was remodelled in the late 18th century. It features uncoursed chalk rubble with brick dressings and is colourwashed over the original timber-frame. The left gable wall is made of chalk and sarsen with brick bands, and it has an old tile roof with brick stacks. The building has a three-unit lobby entry in an L-plan and is two storeys high with a three-window range. There is a flat hood over a four-panelled late 19th-century door, and segmental brick arches above three-light late 19th-century casements, with a 20th-century casement to the ground floor right. The roof is gabled with end and ridge stacks.

Inside, there is a chamfered bressumer over an open fireplace in the centre right room, and a grate from around 1840 in the left room. The building has chamfered and stopped beams, although many common joists have been replaced on both floors. The roof is a six-bay 17th-century structure, originally part of a timber-framed building with collar-trusses and butt purlins, and some timber-framing is exposed in the ground floor right wall, continuing through a single-bay wing to the rear right. There is a late 18th-century one-and-a-half-storey wing to the rear left, built of brick in random bond with a tile roof and a brick end stack. This wing features two and three-light leaded casements and a six-light full dormer with supporting brackets and a panelled apron. The Old Bakehouse, which is next to the Baker's Arms, served as a baker's shop until the mid-20th century.