Baker's Cottage

Baker's Cottage is a house likely built in the 18th century, which was once a small staging inn known as 'The Venison'. After Charles Mathias acquired it in 1821 as part of the Lamphey Estate, it transitioned into a bakery. By 1838, it was owned by Abraham Leach, with George Macken as the tenant. The cottage is also thought to have been home to a governess around 1875.

In approximately 1890, Joseph Bond installed a Tonks baking oven, with its front panel now preserved on a wall at the rear of the house. This oven was used alongside a traditional brick bread oven, and a later Princie oven front is also displayed. In about 1925, R E G White converted a small stable to the south of the house into a new bakery.

The original house and shop face west towards the street and are rendered and painted white. It features a range of three windows, a slate roof with a tile ridge, and unrendered end chimneys. The upper windows are two-pane casements with dormer heads, which have triangular fronts glazed with three panes and V-bars. The dormers also include ornamental bargeboards and finials. Below, the windows are two-pane sashes. There is a small shop extension to the south, which has a blocked opening at the front.

At the front, there is a rubble stone garden wall with a wooden gate and a coping made of spaced upright stones. To the south, there is a single-storey building, gabled at the front, which is said to have been a stable and later used as a bakery, possibly reduced in height. This building features rubble masonry brought to courses, a slate roof with a tile ridge, and a small central brick chimney.

Baker's Cottage, along with the converted stable and front garden wall, is listed for group value with the nearby church.