Description

MOLLAND SS 8028-8128 20/81 The Bakery - GV II House, now partly bakery and shop. Mid - C17 with mid - to late C19 addition at rear. Rendered probably over stone rubble, with some cob. Coursed rubble addition. Rendered end stack with offsets and weathering. Gable ended scantle-slate roofs. Plan and development: C17 two-room plan facing south, consisting of larger room to left (probably former kitchen/hall) with external end stack and smaller unheated service room to right. Central entrance, formerly into left-hand room. Bakery wing added to rear of right-hand room in the late C19. C18 or C19 outshut in angle at rear with integral lateral stack. Entrance also altered, either in the late C19 or C20, to form lobby to shop in right-hand room. Staircase, possibly of the same date, to rear of lobby. Two storeys. Exterior: Asymmetrical 2-window front; late C19 and mid-C18 2-and 3-light wooden casements. Central C19 boarded door with beaded pegged frame. Probably C20 gabled porch. Rear wing was brick steps up to boarded loft door with wooden lintel. Right- hand side with first-floor late C19 or early C20 wooden casement, ground-floor C19 three-light wooden casement, and C19 boarded door to right. Interior: Right-hand ground-floor room has deep-chamfered C17 cross beams and half beams along side walls with stepped runout stops. Two-panelled door from entrance lobby. C17 fireplace in left-hand ground-floor room with stone jambs, wooden lintel and late C19 surround. Mainly late C19 panelled doors throughout. Probably early C20 bake-oven in bakery wing, with plate: "BAKERY ENGINEERS/PJ Goodwin and Co/Bristol". Also metal-lined wooden dough-bin. C17 roof has open trusses with straight principals and pegged apices, and diagonally-set ridge-piece. C19 three-bay roof over rear wing with collar trusses and pairs of staggered purlins.

Listing NGR: SS8067428355

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