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The Bread Oven House in Cambridgeshire
3 May 2022
Architects: chadwickdryerclarke.studio
Location: Cambridgeshire, England, UK

Photos: Richard Chivers
The Bread Oven House, Cambridgeshire
BreadOven was the result of the desire to create a new focal point for the family to gather. A detached grade II listed building, on the edge of the former village green within a conservation area, originating from the 16th century, with 17th and 19th century additions, the original house is of timber-framed construction, rendered on a brick plinth, with a clay peg tiled roof to the front and a concrete plain tiled roof to the rear.

The original house was simple in plan, the materials, craftsmanship and architectural features of the period are clearly visible witin its structure, including six 19th century casement windows with cast iron latticed glazing bars, exposed timber framing, stop chamfered ceiling beams, and two inglenook hearths, one with sealed baking ovens.
To the wall of one first floor bedroom there are scratched markings, which read ?Maudie Paine, Hardwick School? who was found on the 1881 census.

The new extended part of the house is sited to follow the diagonal line of a historical external retaining wall. This deliberate design feature was used to ensure the new extension did not dominate the existing historical building or its setting within the conservation area and hel...