The Old Bakery

The Old Bakery is a house that also served as a bakery, dating from the 17th century with later alterations. It is built from coursed limestone rubble with ironstone bands, and has a plain limestone rubble addition. The roofs are covered with slate and Collyweston stone slate, and there are brick ridge and end stacks. The building is two storeys high, with the original house being two windows wide and an additional bay to the right. The original house features a central 20th-century door with a wooden lintel and three-light gudgeon-hung casement windows. The ground floor windows have cyma-moulded cornices, while the first-floor windows have wooden lintels. The addition also has similar three-light windows. A large gabled oven has been added to the left side, supported by stout restical timbers and iron ties, with a taking-in door located in the gable end of the house. At the rear, there is a two-storey wing. Inside, the left-hand ground floor room has two chamfered and stopped cross beams and chamfered joists, which have been converted into a bakehouse. Although the mouth of the oven is now blocked, some original bakehouse fittings remain, including benches, a flour chute, and a plain enclosed wooden stair leading to the floor space above. The bakery operated until 1956.