The Old Bakery

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

OTTERTON FORE STREET (south side) SY 0885 Otterton 7/165 The Old Bakery GV II

House and bakery; it looks like the house was formerly 2 cottages and the bakery was added later. Probably mid C19 and late C19-early C20. Plastered stone rubble and/or cob; brick or stone rubble stacks topped with brick (one with Rolle Estate chimney pots); thatch roof, corrugated asbestos to bakery.

Formerly a pair of 2-room cottages built end onto the street and facing east-north- east, say east. Both are 2-room plan cottages, the left one with an axial stack between the rooms and the right one with a projecting rear lateral stack to the right room (nearest the road). The bakery projects at right angles to rear of the left end with an outer (northern) lateral stack. 2 storeys.

irregular 5-window front of late C19 and C20 casements, 3 to the left cottage with the doorway on the right end and 2 to the right cottage with the central doorway.

Both are late C19 doors with contemporary slate-roofed and gabled hoods. Roof is hipped to left and gable-ended to right. Right end has a similar casement to each floor. The bakery is gable-ended.

Interior not inspected.

The Old Bakery is one of a number of attractive listed buildings along Fore Street, Otterton.

Listing NGR: SY0829085280

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/0364 IOE Records taken by M H Carter; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr M. H. Carter. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project