Description

WOOLPIT GREEN HILL
TL 9762
5/137 The Old Bakery (previously
listed as The Bakery, The
Street)
15.11.54
GV II
House and restaurant, formerly bakery. Circa 1550 with encasing of late C18
or early C19. 2 storeys. 3 windows, plus 2 dummy windows. Timber-framed,
encased in late C18/early C19 red brick (now painted). Concrete plaintiled
roof. Two end chimneys: that to left is of C16 narrow buff bricks, that to
right a rebuilt shaft of C17 red brick. C19 small-pane casements with
cambered heads. A c19 boarded entrance door, and another 2-panelled. A 2-
cell end-chimney house, with a number of original features: in the hall is an
exposed 1st floor of roll-moulded beams and joists. An open fireplace with
deep double-ogee moulded fireplace. Evidence for a longwall jetty to the
street frontage. A repositioned wainscotted cross-passage screen with
chamfered framing. A blocked window with roll-moulded mullions. Altererd
twin service doorways. A reset doorway with 4-centred arch. The single
service room has good unchamfered floor joists.

Listing NGR: TL9739662371

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26476747

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Recommended Books

• 
  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  For the Record
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover