The Old Bakery

THE OLD BAKERY, 5, SALMONS LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1041121
Date first listed:
22-May-1985
List Entry Name:
The Old Bakery
Statutory Address:
THE OLD BAKERY, 5, SALMONS LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1041121
Date first listed:
22-May-1985
List Entry Name:
The Old Bakery
Statutory Address 1:
THE OLD BAKERY, 5, SALMONS LANE

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
THE OLD BAKERY, 5, SALMONS LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Middleton Cheney
National Grid Reference:
SP5057741729

Details

SP5041
13/215

MIDDLETON CHENEY
SALMON'S LANE
(East side)
Lower Middleton
No.5 (The Old Bakery)

GV
II

House and bakery. C17, enlarged C18 and C19. Coursed limestone and ironstone
rubble, slate roof, flanking brick and stone stacks. Through passage plan
originally single cell, enlarged one bay to left in C18; projecting bakery wing
added C19. 2 storeys, attic and cellar. 3 bays, Doorway in second bay from right
has wood lintel and C20 ribbed plank door. Overlight with stone mullion and
square hood. 3-light window with stone mullions and square hood to right.
Similar window in right bay on first floor. 2-light window with stone mullions
but no hood in central bay. Small one-light window with wood lintel to left. C19
wing projects from left, coursed limestone and ironstone rubble, corrugated iron
roof. 2 storeys, 3 bays. Doorway in left bay with wood lintel and half glazed
door. 2 doorways in second and third bays with stone lintels and plank doors.
Sash windows with stone lintels on ground floor, and a right bay on first floor.
2- and 3-light casements in left and centre bays. Interior: C17 well staircase
with flat balusters and square newels with moulded finials. Dog gate an first
flight of stairs. Noted as the earliest framed stair recorded in a small house
within the region (Wood-Jones). Stop chamfered ceiling joists.
(R.B. Wood-Jones: Traditional Domestic Architecture in the Banbury Region, 1963,
p.172. Plan and Elevation).

Listing NGR: SP5057741729

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
234487
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Wood-Jones, R B, Traditional Domestic Architecture in the Banbury Region, (1963), 172

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Ordnance survey map of The Old Bakery

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