The Old Bakery

GEDDINGTON SP8883 BAKEHOUSE HILL 1337-0/12/290 No.6 03/12/86 The Old Bakery GV II House, incorporating bakery. C17, with later alterations. Coursed limestone rubble with ironstone bands, and plain limestone rubble addition. Slate and Collyweston stone slate roofs. Brick ridge and end stacks. 2 storeys. Original house, 2-window wide, with one bay addition to right. Original house has central C20 door with wooden lintel. 3-light gudgeon-hung casement windows, those to ground floor with cyma-moulded cornices, those to first floor with wooden lintels. Similar 3-light windows to addition. Large gabled oven added to left, the structure strengthened with stout restical timbers and iron ties. Taking-in door above, in gable end of house. 2-storey wing to rear. Left-hand ground floor room, with 2 chamfered and stopped cross beams and chamfered joists, converted to bakehouse. Mouth of oven now blocked, but some bakehouse fittings remain - benches, flour chute and plain enclosed wooden stair to floor store above - functioned as a bakery until 1956.

Listing NGR: SP8947483060