bakehouse (building)

{{Short description|Building for baking bread}}

File:Gocsej village oven.jpg, Hungary]]

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.Knead to Know: The Real Bread Starter, 2013, {{ISBN|1909166170}}, [https://books.google.com/books?id=eU9EBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA69 p. 69]

Designated bakehouses can be found in archaeological sites from ancient times, e.g., in Roman forts.Housesteads Roman Fort - the Grandest Station, 2014, {{ISBN|1848021658}}, [https://books.google.com/books?id=xxw9BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA226 p. 226]

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.