Listed Building: DAIRY AND BAKEHOUSE RANGE IMMEDIATELY SOUTH OF TUDOR GRANGE (433505)

NETTLESTEAD MAIN ROAD, SOMERSHAM TM 04 NE 6/134 Dairy and Bakehouse range immediately south of Tudor Grange 9.12.55 - II Dairy and bakehouse range, built c.1600 adjacent to the service wing of Tudor Grange (then known as Watering Farmhouse). Used in part as a farm office at date of survey. 2 storeys. Timber-framed; infilled along the front with herringbone bricknogging, probably introduced in late C19/early C20; the rear has plastered wattle-and-daub infill panels. The close-studding has unusual paired serpentine braces at each corner. The ground storey walling was mostly rebuilt C19 in red brick. Plaintiled roof, hipped at the left-hand (bakehouse) end. In the bakehouse is a chimney of red brick, intruded in C17/C18. The upper floor retains all 10 original diamond-mullioned windows, most being of 4 lights. One has an internal boarded sliding shutter, and most have battened louvres applied externally. Various C19 casements at ground storey. A good original moulded plank entrance door faces the service wing of the house. The 2-bay bakehouse at the left-hand end has a lightly smoke- blackened roof and must formerly have been unfloored. The 2-bay centre cell was probably a dairy with granary above (the upper room still has grain-bins). Open trusses have strongly-cambered tie-beams with cranked arch-braces. Good wind-braced clasped-purlin roof. The upper part of the building is almost totally unaltered and is an excellent example of its type. Listing NGR: TM0825848915