The Old Bakery is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1985. House. 4 related planning applications.
The Old Bakery
- WRENN ID
- hushed-vestry-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 October 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Bakery, Long Street, Croscombe, BA5 3QQ
- OS grid reference
- ST 586 444
- Coordinates
- 51.19734, -2.59304
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Bakery is a late 18th-century house located on the north side of Long Street in Croscombe. The house is constructed of random rubble with a slate roof, featuring coped verges and end brick stacks. It has two storeys and originally had three bays across the front, with two bays remaining. The windows are 12-pane sashes in dressed stone surrounds, with the exception of a 3-light casement with glazing bars on the ground floor to the right, also in a dressed stone surround. There are two door openings: one to the left, containing a 20th-century panelled door within a dressed stone surround, and one to the right, featuring French windows with a cornice dripmould in a dressed stone surround.
Local climate
The Old Bakery receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 1999
- 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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