4-10, Bakers Corner

Farmhouse with addition and attached cowhouse, now 4 dwellings. Built around 1700, with early-to-mid 18th-century work, and converted, extended and altered in 1919 and again around 1985. The buildings are constructed of rubble stone with interlocking tile roofs, except No. 10 which has a concrete roof.

The original farmhouse occupies Nos. 6 and 8, a 1½-storey structure of 2 bays with a further low bay linking to the former cowhouse (now 1½ storeys, 2 bays at No. 10). An early-to-mid 18th-century addition projects from the front right of the farmhouse (No. 4), gable-end on to the road. This is 2 storeys with basement and attic. Attached to its right is a 2-storey, 2-bay extension added in 1919. Windows throughout are mostly flat-faced mullioned windows with bead-moulded surrounds.

The former farmhouse (Nos. 6 and 8) features a boarded door to No. 8 set in a quoined, bead-moulded surround. To its left are 2-light and 1-light windows; to the right a later, larger 2-light window with raised surround. Two 2-light gabled attic dormers (with rebuilt gables) sit above. The roof steps down between the left-hand ground floor windows, with a later corniced stack at the change in roof line and an old ridge stack with shouldered base aligned with the doorway.

The former cowhouse (No. 10) to the left has a former wood-lintelled doorway to a through-passage on its right, now blocked with a 2-light window inserted. A 2-light catslide dormer sits above, with a 2-light window to the left. The left bay contains an early 20th-century outshut under a catslide roof with side entry and a large late 20th-century dormer window. Early 20th-century stacks rise to the ridge and left end.

The farmhouse addition (No. 4) has ashlar quoins. Its ground floor has a restored window originally of 3 lights; a basement window of 3 lights dates to around 1985, as does a 3-light window above. An original 2-light attic window survives; other attic windows with dripstone and hoodmoulds are offset to the left. The raised verge is finished with ashlar coping on moulded kneelers. A corniced ashlar gable stack and another to the rear gable are present.

The 1919 extension to the right has quoins and a boarded stable door on its left with quoined surround and gabled porch. Two 2-light windows appear on each floor, with an end stack to the right. To the left side of this addition, in the angle with the main farmhouse, sits a pent-roofed, coursed-stone porch with plinth, a 1-light window to its end wall, and a raised moulded door surround on its left side containing a boarded door to No. 6. Above this, a blocked 2-light window with hoodmould provides access to the addition.

The rear elevation shows the main range with an early 20th-century added single-storey wash-kitchen wing with quoins, quoined door and window to its right return, and a corniced stack. To the right of this wing is a 2-light window; to the left, one light remains of a former wider window. Further left, a wood lintel sits above a former doorway, now with a 2-light window inserted, and another later 2-light window appears further left. The former cowhouse has a blocked former doorway to the through-passage, now with a 2-light window, and 20th-century doorway and dormers.

The right return shows the end wall of the main range, masked on the ground floor by an added outshut of no special interest, but on the first floor are windows of 1 and 2 lights. Kneeler stones finish the gable with ashlar coping and the base of a finial; a later stack rises to the right side. The gable of the 1919 extension has paired quoined doorways to its right; the far right doorway originally served the privy and is now blocked with a window inserted.

Interior features include deeply-chamfered cross-beams in the right-hand room of the main range (No. 6). No. 4 displays stone surrounds to corner fireplaces on the ground, first and attic floors—the first-floor surround has raised moulding, the attic one an elliptical arch. A chamfered beam with lamb's-tongue stops appears on the ground and first floors. A blocked former doorway through to the main range exists on the first floor. The roof comprises a 2-bay principal rafter truss with 2 tiers of butt purlins and a diagonally-set ridge piece.