11 -41 High Street - A Bake House

41 High Street and the cottage attached (no 39 High Street) are built from limestone and would originally have been thatched. Records indicate that in 1701 they were bought by John Swannell who had founded a charity for teaching poor children in Deanshanger to read and write. Over the years, the house passed through various family members including the Clarke family of Manor Farm. The cottage was eventually acquired in 1871 by Thomas Haseldine, a baker, who used it as a bake house. Spencer Masters was the last baker to operate from the site and the cottage is now a private home.