The Old Bakehouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 1959. A C18 Cottage.

The Old Bakehouse

WRENN ID
pitched-gutter-brook
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 November 1959
Type
Cottage
Address
The Old Bakehouse, 47, Spring Street, Wool
OS grid reference
SY 846 866
Coordinates
50.67962, -2.21839
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Bakehouse is a terraced cottage, probably from the 18th century. It features stone walls with brick dressings and a tiled roof that has parapets at the gables, along with brick stacks. The building is two storeys high. The front wall includes a fragment of medieval carved stone, likely from Bindon Abbey. There is a modern part-glazed door, and the ground floor has three horizontally sliding sash windows with glazing bars, one of which is in a former doorway. The first floor has four similar windows. Inside, the main front room has a large open fireplace. At the rear is a wing that was formerly a bakery, which still retains some old ovens. Attached to the north side of No. 47 is a small former cottage or outbuilding that has been incorporated into the house; it has plastered walls on a stone base and a tiled roof. This structure is one storey and has an attic, featuring a stable door. The ground floor has one horizontally sliding sash window with glazing bars, while the attic includes two gabled dormers with similar sash windows.

Local climate

The Old Bakehouse receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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