57, 59 and 61 (Day’s Bakery), High Street
57, 59 and 61 (Day’s Bakery), High Street, Ashwell, Baldock, SG7 5NP
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1347311
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1968
- List Entry Name:
- 57, 59 and 61 (Day’s Bakery), High Street
- Statutory Address:
- 57, 59 and 61 (Day’s Bakery), High Street, Ashwell, Baldock, SG7 5NP
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1347311
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1968
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 04-Mar-1985
- List Entry Name:
- 57, 59 and 61 (Day’s Bakery), High Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 57, 59 and 61 (Day’s Bakery), High Street, Ashwell, Baldock, SG7 5NP
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:
- 57, 59 and 61 (Day’s Bakery), High Street, Ashwell, Baldock, SG7 5NP
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ashwell
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 26735 39644
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 26 June 2026 to update the Name and Address and reformat the text to current standards
TL 2639
8/30
ASHWELL
Ashwell
HIGH STREET (South side)
Nos. 57, 59 and 61 (Day’s Bakery
[Formerly listed as Nos 57 and 59 (formerly listed as the Bakery), previously listed as Nos. 57, 59 and 61 (Day's Bakery) and house occupied by Day's Bakery and tenants]
GV
II*
House and shop in long uniform range, built as hall of the Brotherhood or Guild of St. John the Baptist in the Church of Blessed Mary of Ashwell, formed 1476. The building is c.1500, extended by an identical bay at left end in late C16. Timber frame; exposed close studding on jettied upper floor. Two storeys. First floor has seven mid C19 flush sash windows in moulded wood frames; ground floor with four canted casement bays, the right one a bracketed shop window. Two flush panel doors, the right one half glazed. On left centre is the blocked opening of the former cross passage. A three-bay hall was to right of this. Main stack on towards right is C17 or possibly late C16, an insertion in previously unheated hall.
Interior of left house (No. 57) shows heavy, wide-chamfered floor beam. Cellar with clunch and brick walls on left. Interior of No. 61 (Bakery) shows large clunch fireplace with timber lintel. Inside hall is the four-centred wooden arch of the cross passage door. Important group value in street. (RCHM Typescript).
Listing NGR: TL2673539644
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 162161
- 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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