The Haven

The Haven is a house, likely from the 17th century, that has undergone alterations. It features slobbered rubble, which probably replaced the original clay and wattle, topped with a corrugated iron roof over thatch. The building is one storey with an attic. On the left side, there is a wide early 20th-century window that projects under a canopy; this window has casements with glazing bars and was added when the house functioned as a shop. To the right of this window are two additional windows with plain reveals; the left window is modern, while the right has glazing bars. Between these two windows is a door with plain reveals, and a chimney is located to the right of the wide window. The left gable wall features a door with a rendered surround and an attic window with plain reveals.

Inside, the front door leads into a room with two boxed axial beams. A cruck truss is partly visible in the wall that separates this room from the two rooms on the right. Below the apex of the truss is a yoke, with the blades rising to meet the ridge. The attic above the left (north) end of the house is open to the rafters, and the north gable wall contains a roof truss that is visible from the inside. The owner noted that during renovations, the inner skin of the wall was discovered to be wattle and daub. Additionally, the corner of the rear wall adjoining this truss has a chamfered and stopped vertical post that is tenoned into what is likely part of a wallplate at ground-floor ceiling height, possibly indicating the original timber and wattle outer wall.