Building record 780/0/34 - No.12 Sutton Street (The Old Bakehouse) and attached outbuilding range

House. Dated 1720

{1} House. Dated 1720. Coursed squared ironstone, thatch and slate roofs, brick end, ridge and internal stacks. L-plan. 2 storeys plus attic; 2-window range. Gable end faces street and has casement windows of 2- and 3-lights to ground and first floors, those to left with stop-chamfered timber lintels, a 12-pane sash window in gable to left with timber lintel and datestone above with hood mould and inscribed D/TS/1720, the 2 reversed; stone coped gable with kneeler to left. Slate roofed wing to right raised C19. Blocked cellar window with timber lintel. Entrance to yard on right; 6-panel door with timber lintel and moulded wood surround, immediately to right of street range, 1- and 2-light casement windows to ground and first floors. Front to yard has been raised in brick and is continued by thatched outbuilding range. Probably mid C18. Single storey. End bay is canted to yard.

{3} Undated photo;

{4} Six undated photos:

{5} Used for baking in the 18th century but the old part was rebuilt c1800 and renovated c1975. A small thatched bakehouse to the rear. In 1880 a bigger brick and slate bakehouse was built across the yard and worked until 1961. in 1966, the ovens were removed to the bar of the Crossroads Hotel, Weedon. The last baker had a large archive of material relating to the bakery.

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 11/120 (checked) (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), F06 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN44900.

<3> Photographs of buildings in Flore (Photographs). SNN112168.

<4> Photographs of buildings in Flore (Photographs). SNN112168.

<5> J M Smith, 2001, Northamptonshire Industrial Archaeology Group Recording Forms, p. 11-12 (Recording Form (Not SMR)). SNN117172.

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Aug 5 2026 4:06PM