The Old Bakery (EHER 38560)

An early 18th century timber framed house and ancillary buildings. A 19th century brick-built stable block was converted to a bakehouse, with a coal-fired side-flue baker's oven from around 1890 and which was in use until 1959. The oven was demolished in 1998 but recorded before and during the de-construction.

May 1986. Grade II listed. An early 18th century timber framed house and ancillary buildings. The house is partly plastered, partly tile-hung, partly clad with red brick in Flemish bond, and the roof is covered with handmade red clay tiles. The house is of three bays facing south with a central chimney stack, which originally formed a lobby-entrance (now blocked). It has been extended to the right by one bay, with a parallel range to the rear, and one rear chimney stack, in the early 19th century. The ancillary buildings are weatherboarded with slate roof, and of red brick in Flemish bond roofed with handmade red clay tiles. There is a 19th century brick stable block to the right, converted to a bakehouse, which was originally freestanding but later connected to the house by a weatherboarded link. The stable block contains a coal-fired side-flue baker's oven, from around 1890, which was in commercial use until 1959. <1> See photos <2>. June 1998. Building recording Demolition of original oven and its external structure with the cast iron features rebuilt totally out of context into inner courtyard/kitchen wall of new dwelling. <3> Recording of an original oven and its external structure took place before demolition. The oven was a typical example of an early 19th century side flue oven, of which many thousand were built and are still commonly in existence today. The oven on this site had collapsed inwardly many years previously and had been replaced by a 'Perkins' steam oven for the bakery use. The stages of dismantling the oven were recorded, as was how the oven functioned. <4> See also <5>.