Forms: 1 ? bæchús, 4–6 bakhows(e, 5 bakkehouse, 5–6 bachous, 6 backhous(e, backehouse, (Sc. baghous), 4– bakehouse. [OE. bæc-, from bacan to BAKE + hús HOUSE.] A building or apartment in which bread is made, having an oven for baking it. Also, one in which loaf-sugar is made.
a. 1400. Gloss., in Wright’s Voc., 178. Bakehouse, pistrinum.
c. 1420. Pallad. on Husb., I. 1144. Thi bakhouse therwith all thou maist avance.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 21/2. Bakhowse, or bakynge howse.
1502. Arnold, Chron., 93. Ye shal kepe noo bachous.
1524. Wriothesley, Chron. (1875), I. 14. One Pickeringe, sometyme of the Kings bakehowse.
1606. Holland, Sueton., 141. The uery jades which serued mils and backe-houses.
1624. Massinger, Parl. Love, IV. v. Live to be the talk Of the conduit and the bakehouse.
1697. Lond. Gaz., No. 3313/4. To be Lett, either for a Brew-house … or for a Sugar Bake House.
1862. Lond. Rev., 16 Aug., 140. The temperature of a bakehouse ranges from about 75 to upwards of 80 degrees.
