The Oaks Restaurant and the Old Bakehouse
THE OAKS RESTAURANT, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1147697
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Oaks Restaurant and the Old Bakehouse
- Statutory Address:
- THE OAKS RESTAURANT, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1147697
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Oaks Restaurant and the Old Bakehouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OAKS RESTAURANT, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE OLD BAKEHOUSE, HIGH STREET
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE OAKS RESTAURANT, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD BAKEHOUSE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Tendring (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Thorpe-le-Soken
- National Grid Reference:
- TM1785122384
Details
THORPE-LE-SOKEN
TM 1622-1722
8/89
HIGH STREET
(south-west side)
The Oaks Restaurant
and The Old Bakehouse
GV
II
House, now restaurant, shop and 2 houses. C17/18, altered in C20. Timber
framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 3 bays facing NE with
stack in middle bay behind axis, forming a lobby-entrance. C18/19 extension to
right, with internal stack at end. At left end, catslide extension to rear,
with C20 extensions beyond. At right end, single-storey rear extension, roofed
with red clay corrugated tiles, connecting main block to C19 bakehouse of red
brick roofed with red clay pantiles. 2 storeys and attics. The Oaks
Restaurant, forming the original building, has on the ground floor one C19 sash
of 16 lights and a double splayed shopfront with C20 casements, and on the first
floor 3 early C19 sashes of 16 lights with crown glass; C19 double doors each of
4 panels, the upper panels glazed, and C20 half-glazed door between the splayed
bays. The Old Bakehouse, forming the right end, has on the ground floor a C20
shopfront, and on the first floor one C18/early C19 sash of 12 lights; C20
glazed door. Original winder stair in front of main stack. Chamfered
longitudinal beams with lamb's tongue stops, with plain joists of vertical
section. Primary straight bracing in walls. Wood-burning hearths, much
altered.
Listing NGR: TM1785122384
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 120318
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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