The Old Bakery

THE OLD BAKERY, GREEN HILL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1181428
Date first listed:
15-Nov-1954
List Entry Name:
The Old Bakery
Statutory Address:
THE OLD BAKERY, GREEN HILL
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1181428
Date first listed:
15-Nov-1954
Date of most recent amendment:
18-Apr-1988
List Entry Name:
The Old Bakery
Statutory Address 1:
THE OLD BAKERY, GREEN HILL

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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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, GREEN HILL

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

County:
Suffolk
District:
Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:
Woolpit
National Grid Reference:
TL 97404 62440

Details

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

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
280890
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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