The Old Bakehouse

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EASTLEACH EASTLEACH TURVILLE SP 1905 2005 13/274 Nos 17 & 18 (The Old Bakehouse) GV II House, formerly incorporating bakery. C17, extended in C18 and C19.Limestone rubble, some dressed limestone quoins. Stone tile roofs with gabled ends. Dressed stone gable end and axial stacks. Complex plan: The main 3-room plan range with a 1-room plan wing behind the right end is probably the original C17 house, onto which has been added a circa early C18 1-room plan rear wing at the centre and an C18 or C19 outbuilding (salthouse) on the front of the right end. The parallel block attached by a smaller block on the front left corner was possibly originally a separate building and has small outshuts at both ends. 2 storeys and 1 storey and attic. Asymmetrical 2:3:1 window ranges. The main 1- storey and attic 3 window centre range is set back, has 2 gabled dormers, 2 and 3-light casements with glazing bars, ground floor left with chamfered cyma stopped timber lintel and panelled door to left of centre and plank door on right. Small single storey gable-ended wing on right and projecting parallel 2-window range on left with 2-light stone mullion windows with hoodmoulds, outshuts on either end and similar windows at rear. 2 storey and attic and 1 storey and attic wings at rear of main range. Interior: Left room of main range has chamfered axial beam with runout stops and section of moulded cornice; centre room has chamfered axial beam with bar stops, stone floor and large fireplace with chamfered cambered lintel with bar stops; winder stairs to left of stack. Room to right and wing behind, formerly used as bakery with C19 bread ovens and salthouse in wing at front. Centre rear wing has unchamfered axial beam and early C18 fielded 6-panel door and in chamber above bolection moulded chimney piece and 2 similar fielded 6-panel doors. Parallel range on left has large chamfered axial beams with step stops partly buried, fireplace with dressed stone jambs and cambered unchamfered timber lintel and roof with large diagonally set through purlins and central tie-beam truss. Remainder of roofs replaced and remainder of joinery largely C19 and late C20.

Listing NGR: SP1999405317