About our B&B

The Old Bakehouse dates back to the Tudor period, with the basement possibly from the 1480's when the street was laid out.
Guest accommodation is in the Tudor & Georgian parts of the building from the 1500's & the 1740's, including use of the lofty 18th c drawing room with its stunning inglenook fireplace at one end.
Our furnishings are period & reflect the age & style of the building.
Many of the figurative oil paintings decorating the walls are by my wife, Charlotte, and some available to buy.
Commissions & instalment payment are possible.
The Bakehouse has had many incarnations since the medieval use as a guest house for pilgrims visiting the local Shrine.
Variously it has been a Custom House, a Corn Exchange, a Barclays Bank, a tea rooms, a restaurant, & for the last number of years a B & B.
Originally the building was part of next door's Falcon House, where Erasmus stayed twice in the 1500's on his visits from Cambridge where he was teaching at the University.
Divided into separate properties some time in the dim & distant past, the lofty main sitting room at The Old Bakehouse may have originally been the dining room for Pilgrims staying at the Falcon House Hostelry, now with an 18th century facade.
A feature of the room is the "hangman's beam" where the grain sacks may have been weighed in its years as a Corn Exchange.
The In & Out twin front doors may reflect the time as a Custom House.
Elizabeth Fry was a guest in the 19th century - a relative of the Gurney banking family (founders of Barclays) whose descendants own Walsingham Abbey (the main village house) to this day.
Walsingham is a historic village with a complex story & many beautiful, period buildings.
If you are here to visit the Thursford Spectacular we are 4 miles away; for Pilgrims, we are ideally situated on the High Street, yards from the gates to the Abbey Grounds, Anglican Shrine & the village Catholic church.
Pilgrims are welcome to use our chapel.
The Rebellion Way passes by our door.