Old Bake House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1978. Shop, offices. 1 related planning application.
Old Bake House
- WRENN ID
- late-sentry-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Chippenham MP: Sarah Gibson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 June 1978
- Type
- Shop, offices
- Address
- Old Bake House, 21, Timber Street, Chippenham, SN15 3BS
- OS grid reference
- ST 921 731
- Coordinates
- 51.45685, -2.11462
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Bake House is a pair of cottages that were originally a bakehouse, now serving as a shop and offices. It dates from the early 18th century. The building features limestone rubble that is painted on the front, with freestone quoin to the left, architraves, and a plinth. The roof is made of plain tiles and is half-hipped to the right.
The structure has two storeys and a one-window range. The central doorcase has cyma-moulding, and there are stone mullions supporting 3-light windows with leaded casements on the right side of both floors. To the left, there is a 19th-century one-and-a-half storey symmetrical shop front that includes a dentilled cornice on the fascia, flanked by consoles supported by fluted pilasters. The door and overlight are set back from the front. The right side of the building has 20th-century windows.
Inside, there are rough axial beams on both floors with exposed rafters, although most of these are 20th-century additions. The Old Bake House is contemporary with No. 19, with which it shares a roof.
Local climate
Old Bake House receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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