Building record 1151500000 - BAKER'S COTTAGE, 32 CHURCH STREET

Grade II. House. C17, altered. Timber frame with diagonal braces and colourwashed render infill. C20 tiled roof,brick chimney to rear. L-plan. One storey and attic, 2 bays to front. Ground floor has old leaded windows: one 3-light casement in wooden architrave frame to right, and 2 paired casements. Upper floor has C20 paired leaded casement in gabled eaves-line dormer to right. 4-panelled door in wooden architrave frame between right windows. Rear wing also has C20 leaded casements. Small tiled oven projection to centre of right side. C20 single storey extension to rear. RCHM II p.246 Mon. 12 (B1).
Historic building recording carried out by Iain Soden in May 2015 concluded that the attached timber-framed outbuilding to the rear of Baker's Cottage was probably erected in the 19th century from a variety of reclaimed materials including much older box-framing. The outbuilding was formerly thatched and about a third of its stone flooring remains. It is suggested that bay 2 was formerly used for housing animals, possibly as a stable, whilst bay 1 may have been used by a butcher as a meat store. See report for detail (B2).