Description

WEST MALLING

TQ6857 HIGH STREET
1156-0/3/13 (East side)
01/08/52 Nos.53-57 (Odd) J
The Bakery Restaurant
(Formerly Listed as:
HIGH STREET
Premises occupied by Brigg's Backery
and L Brewer Confectioner)

GV II*

Restaurant and flat. Probable late C15 open hall house with
late C16 inserted chimneystack and ceiling refronted in brick
in C18 but framing partially exposed in C20. Timber-framing
exposed to 1st floor to left-hand part with 2 massive down
braces and remains of jetty. Ground floor underbuilt in
painted brick. Projecting C18 bay faced with mathematical
tiles with hipped roof and 16-pane sash to sills and some
plain tiles to right-hand side. Ground floor underneath has
penticed brick and tiled extension with C19 windows. Right
side section has brick front. Tiled roof with central brick
chimneystack. 2 hipped dormers with casements. 1st floor has
one 4-light original mullioned window, one C20 4-light
casement and 2 C20 casements on right-hand side. Ground floor
has 2 modern doors and windows.
Interior has stone cellar with 4-centred arched door with
moulding. Embedded at the base of the left side ground floor
wall is the top of the stone medieval market cross of the town
with carved crucifixion and top of a figure. Ground floor
retains entrances to buttery and pantry with roll moulding and
former open hall has late C16 or early C17 stone fireplace
with wooden lintel, plain spandrels and brick rear wall. '
Upstairs are jowled upright posts, 2 tiers of arched braces
and 2 octagonal crownposts with 4 headbraces to collar beam.
High quality features suggest this building has some
specialized original use.
(Cozier P: Survey of buildings in West Malling: ITEM 7).

Listing NGR: TQ6806457835

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17546928

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Recommended Books

• 
  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
• 
  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version