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.

Gallery

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  The Bakehouse (Dirmstein), Germany
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  An oven-house (four a pain maison), Saint-Rivoal, France
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  A town bakehouse, Gönnern, Germany
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  A village bakehouse, Saint-Nicolas-de-Macherin, France

See also

• Tandoor
• Communal oven

References

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