Barleycorn, since 2012

Bread baked before you wake up.

A working bakehouse selling sourdough, pastries and cakes from 7am. Everything made from scratch, nothing trucked in frozen.

See what we bake

12

Years trading

11

Years, the starter's age

15+

Breads baked weekly

4am

When the ovens start
THE STARTER

Eleven years old, and it does not get a day off.

The sourdough starter behind the counter has been fed every single day since the bakehouse opened in 2012, through Christmas, through the week the ovens broke, through every closure that has ever happened here. Losing it would mean starting the flavour again from nothing, so somebody feeds it even on the one day a week we do not open.

The 4am start exists because of it. A proper sourdough needs hours nobody sees, and the only way to have it ready by 7am is to be the person nobody sees doing it.

WHAT WE BAKE

Three things, every single day.

The ovens start at 4am so the shelves are full by opening.

Baker's hands holding a freshly baked rustic sourdough loaf at Barleycorn Bakehouse

Sourdough and bread

Naturally leavened, using a starter that has been going for eleven years.

Barleycorn Bakehouse story

Pastries

Croissants, pain au chocolat and danishes, laminated by hand each morning.

Barleycorn Bakehouse

Cakes and traybakes

Made to order for events, or grab a slice from the counter.

Worth knowing

Before you come down

01

Come early for the best choice

Popular loaves sell out most days by 11am.

02

Order ahead for events

Cakes and large bread orders need 48 hours’ notice.

03

Ask what's fresh

The counter changes through the day as things come out of the oven.

“The sourdough alone is worth the trip. I have never had it fail to sell out before I get there if I am not early.”

Local customer, ten years
Fresh from the oven

Find us

Open Tuesday to Sunday from 7am, until the shelves are bare.

Opening hours & address — content slot
Tuesday to Saturday
7am – sold out
Sunday
7am – sold out
Monday
Closed — starter still fed

Street address, phone and exact daily hours belong in this block — none of them appear anywhere on the live site.

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