Bakehouse/Detached Kitchen And Traphouse And Stable Range Immediately West Of Greystones

SY58NW 308/6/10008 12-JUL-00

PUNCKNOWLE CHURCH STREET Bakehouse/detached kitchen and traphouse and stable range immediately west of Greystones

GV II

Detached kitchen or bakehouse. Probably C18; extended 1870. Coursed stone rubble. Corrugated asbestos and slate roofs with gabled ends. Gable end stack truncated below ridge. PLAN: 1-room plan bakehouse/detached kitchen with large gable-end fireplace and unheated room in integral outshut at rear [N]. In 1870 a traphouse and integral stable were built at the left [W] end. EXTERIOR: 1 storey and loft. South front has circa early C19 3-light casement with glazing bars and plank door on right with wrought-iron strap hinges. To left 1870 traphouse has wide segmental arch carriageway with double doors, C19 2-light loft window above with glazing bars and to left lower stable with small blocked window and doorway with sliding doors. At rear [N] roof is carried down to lower eaves over integral outshut. INTERIOR; Bakehouse/kitchen has chamfered cross-beam with run-out stops, renewed joists, large fireplace with chamfered cambered timber bressumer and later brick ovens. Staircase rises directly from kitchen to loft above, which has exposed 3-bay roof with two collar trusses, the collars halved and lapped to the principals which have mortices for tenoned purlins, the purlins and common-rafters missing. Floor of traphouse partly removed. In west gable of stables is a stone tablet inscribed R.S. 1870.

Listing NGR: SY5339088694