Description

WEEDON BEC CHURCH STREET
SP6359 (North side)
Lower Weedon
17/202 No.8 (The Old Bakehouse) and
24/06/86 No.10
GV II
House, now house and shop. C16 with C18 and early C19 additions and alterations.
Coursed squared limestone with decayed ironstone dressings, thatch roof, brick
end and ridge stacks, the large central ridge stack with stone base. 3-unit
Plan. 3-storey, 5-window range. Door to left of centre with chamfered stone
jambs and moulded 4-centred arched head, string course above inflected down to
form hood mould over door. Window to left has double-chamfered stone surround
and single central chamfered mullion. C19 large pane sash window with timber
lintel to far left. Central C19 3-light shop window with C19 part-glazed door to
right in moulded wood surround occupying half of a window with double-chamfered
stone surround, formerly mullioned, right half blocked with brick. A blocked
window to far right with double-chamfered stone surround at a higher level that
others, the string course above inflected upwards to form hood mould. 3-light
double-chamfered stone mullion windows to first floor. String course at second
floor level. Second floor blank to street but formerly lit by row of blocked
2-light stone mullion windows to rear. Stone-coped gables with kneelers.
Rendered and whitewashed 2-storey, 1-window mid/late C18 addition to right
(No.10) formerly part of the same property, and has C20 shop window and C20 door
to right in tiled projecting bay, one 2-light C20 window to first floor, brick
dentil cornice, half-hipped pantile roof with brick stack against gable of No.8.
2-storey gabled range to rear much altered C20. Interior: The Old Bakehouse has
4-centred arched stone firplaces to ground, first and second floors and an open
fireplace with chamfered bressumer.

Listing NGR: SP6310259320

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26626896

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)