Sally Lunn, a young French refugee, arrived in England over 300 years ago. She began to bake a rich round and generous bread now known as the Sally Lunn Bun.
The story of Sally Lunn's House starts long before the arrival of Sally Lunn in 1680. Excavations in the cellar's of this timber framed building, firstly in the 1930s and more recently in 1985 have produced many finds dating back through Bath's history to Roman times.
The lowest floor level can be dated to around 1150 and rests on rubble containing rich pink burnt stone from the fire of 1137.
The oven was constructed outside the kitchen on the earliest medieval floor level with its mouth just projecting into the building. The bread oven is of a design which originated in Rome around 100 B.C. and was still the normal type of construction until the early 17th century.
Traditionally a date of 1482 had been ascribed to this house, which probably refers to a rebuilding of the fireplaces and chimneys of the parlour adjacent to the refectory during the monastic period.
Sally Lunn's House is a unique reminder of pre-Georgian Bath. It is said to be the oldest house in Bath that is still standing.
(Material pulled from the SL website)
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