A bakehouse is a building for baking bread. The term may be used interchangeably with the term "bakery", although the latter commonly includes both production and retail areas.[1]
Designated bakehouses can be found in archaeological sites from ancient times, e.g., in Roman forts.[2]
Historically there have been many types of bakehouses: individual, in the backyards of homesteads; communal, used by residents of a village or a town, and commercial.
Some of them used to be nothing but a huge oven, called oven-houses.
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The Bakehouse (Dirmstein), Germany -
An oven-house (four a pain maison), Saint-Rivoal, France -
A town bakehouse, Gönnern, Germany -
A village bakehouse, Saint-Nicolas-de-Macherin, France
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- ^ Knead to Know: The Real Bread Starter, 2013, ISBN 1909166170, p. 69
- ^ Housesteads Roman Fort - the Grandest Station, 2014, ISBN 1848021658, p. 226