The Hayes

The Hayes is a small country house built in the early 19th century. It features cement rendering and painted plain tile roofs that overhang, adorned with decorative bargeboards. The main block has four brick ridge stacks, with two additional stacks on the service wings. The house is two storeys high, with the east elevation showcasing three gabled bays; the center gable is half-hipped. A large projecting porch is notable for its two circular castellated angle turrets, each containing a gothic niche, and the battlements are corbelled out with plain parapets in between.

The entrance features a broad four-centred stepped arch, flanked by buttresses, and includes a half-glazed door with decorative glazing and three gothic panels below. This doorway is accompanied by stepped segmental pointed windows with sashes and decorative glazing. Above, there are three sashes with similar glazing, set under flat arches.

The twin-gabled north elevation has five segmental pointed windows on the ground floor and five above, all under flat arches. The south elevation, also twin-gabled and comprising three bays, includes a 20th-century semi-circular conservatory on the right, which features a large gothic doorway with French doors. To the left, there is a segmental pointed arched doorway and window, both with gothick glazing, and four glazing bar sashes above, with the center two grouped as a pair.

To the west, there are two painted brick ranges with a dentil cornice and mostly segment-headed windows, which may indicate the remains of an earlier house on the site. Inside, some colored glass remains in the windows, and there is a staircase with cast iron balusters and a wreathed handrail, likely re-set. The interior also features fluted architraves, carved oak Victorian chimneypieces, and one late 18th-century style chimneypiece in an upper room.