The Old Bakery is a Grade II listed building in the Swindon local planning authority area, England. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
The Old Bakery
- WRENN ID
- shifting-lime-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swindon
- Constituency
- East Wiltshire MP: Danny Kruger (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Old Bakery, Oxen Place, Bishopstone, SN6 8PS
- OS grid reference
- SU 245 835
- Coordinates
- 51.55028, -1.64751
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Bakery is a two-storey thatched cottage dating to 1823. It is situated in Oxen Place, Bishops Stone. The building is two bays wide and constructed of painted rubble with a brick chimney on the right end. The ground floor features tripartite casement windows, while the upper floor has segment-headed casement windows. A glazed lean-to has been added to the ground floor. A datestone centrally located on the first floor reads "T + Cox 1823 1 S". A mid-19th century slate roof extension extends to the left.
Local climate
The Old Bakery receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2010
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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