The Old Bakery

The Old Bakery is a house, with a ground floor that was converted into a shop in the 19th century and is now rented as holiday accommodation. It dates from the early to mid-18th century, with alterations in the 19th and modernisation around 1980. The construction is mixed; stone rubble is exposed on the north side wall, while the front is plastered, with some slate-hung timber-framing to the rear of the south side. Stone rubble stacks are on the right side wall, featuring painted brick chimneyshafts with pots, and the roof is pantiled.

The plan is of a building one room wide and two or three rooms deep. The exterior is three storeys high and has a two-window front. The plastered front is designed to resemble ashlar. The ground floor has a timber shop front, altered around 1980, with plain pilasters at each end of the fascia. A door with top glazing and a panelled door sits on the left-hand side, above a rebuilt shop window with glazing bars. A previous description noted a central shop doorway and a separate doorway to the house. The two upper floors have replacement sash windows without glazing bars. Deep eaves with a plastered soffit are supported by shaped timber brackets which run along the north side. The roof is hipped. The south side shows remnants of a lower gabled party wall of a demolished building that formerly abutted it. The right side wall has a couple of 20th-century oculus windows.

The interior was not inspected, but the passage screen is panelled in two heights, fielded into the front room. While there is evidence of 20th-century modernisation, including the removal of chimneypieces, there is suspected remaining 18th-century joinery and other detail.

The building is part of a group of listed buildings located at the foot of Ridge Hill.