The Old Bakery is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1960. Cottage, outbuilding. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Bakery
- WRENN ID
- floating-rood-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1960
- Type
- Cottage, outbuilding
- Address
- The Old Bakery, the Hill, Castle Combe, SN14 7HN
- OS grid reference
- ST 842 772
- Coordinates
- 51.49381, -2.22892
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Bakery is a cottage and outbuildings dating from the late 17th century, constructed of rubble stone with a stone tiled roof featuring a rebuilt ridge stack. The building is two storeys high and has a two-window range, which includes three-light ovolo-moulded stone mullion windows with hoods. There is a central 20th-century door with leaded lights. Attached to the left is a range of outbuildings that were formerly a bakery, consisting of two sections. The first section has a roof with double Roman tiles and features an upper loading door, two windows, and a bread oven at the west end. The second section has two windows and two doors.
Local climate
The Old Bakery 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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