The Old Bakehouse is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1960. A Georgian House.
The Old Bakehouse
- WRENN ID
- distant-buttress-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1960
- Type
- House
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- The Old Bakehouse, Church Street, Biddestone & Slaughterford
- OS grid reference
- ST 862 735
- Coordinates
- 51.46071, -2.1994
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Bakehouse is a house dating from around 1800, constructed of rubble stone with a stone tiled roof and an ashlar ridge stack. It has an 'L'-shaped plan with a hipped roof wing that projects forward. The building is two storeys high and features a double fronted main range. On the upper floor, there are two 6-pane sash windows in flush surrounds with cyma moulded jambs. The ground floor has a central door with a hood supported by brackets, and there are 16-pane sash windows in flush surrounds on either side of the door. The wing includes a door and a 20th-century casement window on the west side. Additionally, there is a stone tiled hipped roof garage extension from the 20th century located on the south end wall.
Local climate
The Old Bakehouse receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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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