The Old Bakery is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1987. House with attached shop.
The Old Bakery
- WRENN ID
- second-facade-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 October 1987
- Type
- House with attached shop
- Address
- The Old Bakery, the Adit, Calstock
- OS grid reference
- SX 436 685
- Coordinates
- 50.49604, -4.20539
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Bakery is a house with an attached shop, now functioning solely as a house. It dates from the early to mid-19th century, with a later addition for the shop around the late 19th century, which has undergone further alterations. The building is constructed of painted stone rubble and features a hipped slate roof with ridge tiles and an axial stack with a brick shaft.
The layout consists of a two-room plan with a central entrance. The room on the left was likely originally heated by a stack at the left end, while the room on the right was heated from a stack that has since been moved to an axial position. The late 19th-century addition on the right end was designed as a one-room plan for a shop that served as a bakery.
The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical two-window front. On the ground floor, there is an off-centre plank door with an overlight. To the left, there is a 19th-century 16-pane sash window with a segmental brick arch, and to the right, a similar 12-pane sash window along with a lower cellar light, also featuring a segmental brick arch. The first floor has two similar 12-pane sash windows. The shop section to the right is two storeys tall and includes a 19th-century 4-pane sash window on the ground floor. The shop front features a 12-pane window with pilasters and a cornice, and the first floor has a 19th-century 12-pane sash window with a segmental brick arch. At the rear, there is a small single-storey lean-to that serves as a porch for a 20th-century half-glazed door. The rear of the main house extends beyond the shop addition and includes a 10-pane stair light.
The interior is not accessible for inspection.
Local climate
The Old Bakery sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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