Former Cooperative Bakery

The Former Cooperative Bakery is a two-storey building with a lower two-storey wing on the right, designed to fit an acutely angled side wall that accommodates a lane leading to a former ford. It is constructed of coursed rock-faced sandstone, with rubble on the sides and painted brick dressings. The main unit has a corrugated asbestos roof, while the wing features a Welsh slate roof, and there is a yellow brick stack on the main ridge to the right.

The main facade includes a first-floor doorway with a hoist above, situated under a small gabled dormer supported by struts on corbels. To the right, there are two cambered-headed windows with sills and replaced glazing. The wing has three renewed square-headed windows. On the ground floor, there is a remodelled doorway to the left beneath the original metal lintel and a track for a sliding wooden door, which provided access to a lobby where carts unloaded. To the right, there is a range of windows and a remodelled doorway, featuring cambered or segmental arched heads, some with keystones, and one rectangular metal-framed window, mostly altered at different stages.

The ground floor is now an open workshop but retains several original fittings. The left unit was used for mixing, and the base for machinery is located under the current floor. The strong original ceiling of metal joists and concrete in the main unit is intact, designed to support the weight of ingredients stored above and channeled down through chutes. The ceiling in the converted right unit is arched with metal panels to enhance load-bearing capacity. Ovens were located in the right unit, and some flues in the walls still survive; ashes were raked out from the rear through surviving openings. The interior was originally lined with white tiles, some of which remain. The first floor has been converted to living accommodation, with a replaced staircase. The hoist machinery, described as an 'eccentric functional clutch mechanism', remains in situ in the roof on the left, complete with metal tracks and the original electric motor that powered it below.