"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 ...
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retail areas.
Designated bakehouses can be found in archaeological sites from ancient times, e.g., in Roman forts.
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.
The Bakehouse (Dirmstein), Germany
An oven-house (four a pain maison), Saint-Rivoal, France" - (en.wikipedia.org 20.11.2019)