The Old Bakery is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. House. 4 related planning applications.
The Old Bakery
- WRENN ID
- fossil-spindle-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- South Northamptonshire MP: Sarah Bool (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Bakery, 58, Bedford Road, Little Houghton, NN7 1AB
- OS grid reference
- SP 804 596
- Coordinates
- 52.22918, -0.82372
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Bakery is a house, originally a baker's shop and dwelling, dating from the late 17th or early 18th century. It was extended and altered in the 19th century. The building is constructed from coursed ironstone rubble, with bands of limestone. The roof is covered with pantiles, replacing an earlier thatch, and has brick end stacks.
The house has a 2-unit, central-staircase plan. It is two storeys and an attic, with a 3-window front. A central glazed door, set within a 20th-century porch, is flanked by 3-light casement windows with segmental brick heads. The first floor has a central 3-light casement flanked by 2-light casements, all with rendered heads. A tile-coped gable is visible on the left side. To the right is a 2-storey and attic extension, formerly partly an outbuilding, with 2 windows.
The interior retains spine beams, some boxed and some stop-chamfered with run-out stops. There is an open fireplace with a cambered bressumer, a dog-leg staircase with serpentine splat balusters, and a collar truss roof.
Local climate
The Old Bakery sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2009
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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