The Old Bakehouse

The Old Bakehouse is a house, originally incorporating a bakery, dating back to the 17th century, with extensions from the 18th and 19th centuries. It is constructed of limestone rubble, with some dressed limestone quoins, and has stone tile roofs with gabled ends. Axial and gable end stacks are made of dressed stone.

The building has a complex plan, with what is likely the original 17th-century three-room plan range, to which a circa 18th-century one-room plan rear wing was added in the centre, along with an 18th or 19th-century outbuilding (a salthouse) at the right end. A parallel block, possibly originally a separate building, is attached by a smaller block in the front left corner and has small outshuts at both ends.

The house is two storeys and one storey with an attic. It has an asymmetrical arrangement of window ranges, two, three, and one windows wide. The central, one-storey and attic section, with three windows, is set back and features two gabled dormers, two and three-light casement windows, and a panelled door to the left of centre and a plank door on the right. A small, single-storey, gable-ended wing is located on the right, and a projecting, parallel two-window range sits on the left, featuring two-light stone mullion windows with hoodmoulds and outshuts at either end. Two-storey and attic, and one-storey and attic wings extend from the rear of the main range.

Inside the left room of the main range is a chamfered axial beam with run-out stops and a section of moulded cornice. The centre room has a chamfered axial beam with bar stops, a stone floor, and a large fireplace with a chamfered cambered lintel with bar stops. Winder stairs are located to the left of the stack. The room to the right and the wing behind were formerly used as a bakery, with 19th-century bread ovens and a salthouse in the front wing. The centre rear wing contains an unchamfered axial beam and an early 18th-century fielded six-panel door. Above is a bolection moulded chimney piece and two similar fielded six-panel doors. The parallel range on the left has large chamfered axial beams with step stops, a fireplace with dressed stone jambs and a cambered timber lintel, and a roof with large diagonally set through purlins and a central tie-beam truss. The remainder of the roofs have been replaced, and most of the joinery dates to the 19th and late 20th centuries.