The Old Bakery is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1961. Cottage.
The Old Bakery
- WRENN ID
- lone-cinder-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 April 1961
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Old Bakery, 5, the Borough, Montacute
- OS grid reference
- ST 498 169
- Coordinates
- 50.94979, -2.71553
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Bakery is a cottage located in a row of buildings, likely dating from the 17th century and modified over time. It is constructed of cut and squared ham stone with ashlar dressings, and features a Welsh slate roof over stone slate base courses, topped with coped gables. The building has brick chimney stacks at both ends and in the middle.
It stands two storeys tall and has two bays. Originally, it had chamfer-mullioned windows set in chamfered recesses, with labels above the lower windows. The mullions have been removed, and in the lower bay two, the jambs have also been replaced, resulting in 3-light horizontal-bar casement windows for all but the lower bay one, which retains a 2-light window. Between the bays is a moulded 4-centre arched doorway without a label, featuring a 20th-century door. There is another former doorway on the extreme left that has been blocked with ashlar. The interior has not been seen. The building is included primarily for its group value in this significant open area in the center of the village.
Local climate
The Old Bakery receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2021
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