The Old Bake House

This is a cottage, formerly used as a shop and believed to have been a bakehouse. It dates from around the early 16th century, with remodelling occurring around the late 17th or early 18th century and extensions added in the late 18th or early 19th century, and again in the 20th century. The walls are roughcast stone rubble under a steeply pitched slate roof, which is half-hipped at the right and gabled at the left, adjoined to an adjoining house. There are two lateral stacks at the rear; the stack on the rear right corner has a tall, rendered, tapered shaft with louvred clay pots.

The original plan incorporated two rooms and a through passage, with each room originally heated by a rear lateral stack. The main range of two rooms with a central passage was originally open to the roof and may have been the lower end (right) and hall (left) of a three-room plan house, the inner room of which has been incorporated into the adjoining house to the left, although it may originally have been only of two rooms. It was likely during the late 17th or early 18th century that the house was floored and a lateral stack built at the back of the hall. The rear lateral stack of the lower right-hand room and the outshut across the back may be later 18th or early 19th-century additions. A narrow single-story wing was added in the 20th century behind the right-hand end of the outshut.

The south front presents an asymmetrical appearance with two windows. There are 19th-century two-light casements with glazing bars; the ground floor window on the left was replaced with a late 20th-century casement of a similar design. The central doorway has a 20th-century glazed and panelled door. There are two small 19th-century casements on the right-hand gable end, with a small 20th-century casement above on the first floor. The roof of the main range extends to the rear, covering an outshut which has been extended in the 20th century by the single-story wing.

Internally, the main cross-beam in the passage is roughly chamfered with a straight cut strap. The left-hand room features roughly chamfered, wavy ceiling beams and a lateral fireplace at the back with a cambered, chamfered timber lintel and a brick-lined oven. The right-hand room has a lateral fireplace at the back with a thinly chamfered timber lintel. The first-floor chamber above the left-hand room contains a small rear lateral fireplace with an unstrapped chamfered timber lintel. The roof consists of four trusses made from reused, smoke-blackened principals with braces for the collars and threaded purlins which are missing. The feet of the principals are straight, with some being jointed to short posts embedded in the wall tops. Group Value is derived from its contribution to the historical character of the area.