The Old Bakery

OTTERTON FORE STREET (south side) SY 0885 Otterton 7/165 The Old Bakery GV II

House and bakery; it looks like the house was formerly 2 cottages and the bakery was added later. Probably mid C19 and late C19-early C20. Plastered stone rubble and/or cob; brick or stone rubble stacks topped with brick (one with Rolle Estate chimney pots); thatch roof, corrugated asbestos to bakery. Formerly a pair of 2-room cottages built end onto the street and facing east-north- east, say east. Both are 2-room plan cottages, the left one with an axial stack between the rooms and the right one with a projecting rear lateral stack to the right room (nearest the road). The bakery projects at right angles to rear of the left end with an outer (northern) lateral stack. 2 storeys. irregular 5-window front of late C19 and C20 casements, 3 to the left cottage with the doorway on the right end and 2 to the right cottage with the central doorway. Both are late C19 doors with contemporary slate-roofed and gabled hoods. Roof is hipped to left and gable-ended to right. Right end has a similar casement to each floor. The bakery is gable-ended. Interior not inspected. The Old Bakery is one of a number of attractive listed buildings along Fore Street, Otterton.

Listing NGR: SY0829085280