Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26440701

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Recommended Books

• 
  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
• 
  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
• 
  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
• 
  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey