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Two thatched cottages stand behind a fence, with a small brick building featuring a tall chimney situated in the foreground.

Village bakehouse, Papworth St Agnes 1936 (photo J H Bullock) (Cambridgeshire Collection)

Village Bakehouse, Papworth St Agnes

History of the bakehouse

Listed Building

Bakehouse. c.1850. … Built by the Lord of the Manor as a communal bakehouse.

For historic description of Papworth St Agnes see Dora Tack, From Bombs to Buckets, 1989.

A person stands beside a tandem bicycle in front of a small brick building featuring a tall, slender chimney stack.

Communal bakehouse on village green Papworth St Agnes January 1974 (MoC563/74)

Dora Tack writes about the bakehouse. It was built in 1815 and used to bake bread for the village. Houses were allocated particular days.

A stone building with a tall brick chimney, set beside trees and adjacent to a low cottage in a vintage monochrome print.

Bakehouse and cottages, Papworth St Agnes

A small, square brick building featuring a tall, slender chimney and a weathered wooden door, set beside a thatched cottage.

Village Bakehouse, Papworth St Agnes (RGL2025)

A thatched cottage with timber framing sits beside a lane, with a small stone building featuring a tall chimney to the right.

Village Bakehouse, Papworth St Agnes (RGL2025)

A rectangular, red Victorian-era post box with a VR cypher and royal crown is set into an exterior light-brown brick wall.

Village Bakehouse, Papworth St Agnes (RGL2025)

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