Building record 1676/0/59 - No.6 Bakehouse Hill (The Old Bakery)

House appears to have been split and re-numbered to Nos.10 & 12 Bakehouse Hill.

{1} House, incorporating bakery. C17th, with later alterations. Coursed limestone rubble with ironstone bands, and plain limestone rubble addition. Slate and Collyweston stone slate roofs. Brick ridge and end stacks. 2 storeys. Original house, 2-window wide, with one bay addition to right. Original house has central C20 door with wooden lintel. 3-light gudgeon-hung casement windows, those to ground floor with cyma-moulded cornices, those to first floor with wooden lintels. Similar 3-light windows to a gabled over added to left, the structure strengthened with stout restical timbers and iron ties. Taking-in door above, in gable end of house. 2-storey wing to rear. Left-hand ground floor room, with 2 chamfered and stopped cross beams and chamfered joists, converted to bakehouse. Mouth of oven now blocked, but some bakehouse fittings remain - benches, flour chute and plain enclosed wooden stair to floor store above - functioned as a bakery until 1956.

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 12/290 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> 1976, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), J12 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN100754.

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Apr 6 2011 12:04PM