The Day House

The Day House is a farmhouse that was later converted into three cottages. It dates from the mid to late 17th century and has undergone alterations and additions in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building is timber-framed with red brick nogging and has been partly rebuilt in red brick, with an extension in uncoursed grey and yellow sandstone rubble. It features a corrugated asbestos roof.

The structure consists of four framed bays aligned approximately north-east to south-west, with an addition to the south-west. The framing includes square panels, with three extending from the sole plate to the wall plate. The house is one storey with an attic. The north-west front has four early 20th-century flat-topped dormers with 2-light metal casements. There is a large integral T-plan brick end stack on the left with an oversailing cap, and a brick ridge stack off-centre to the right, which was formerly an integral end stack before the addition. The front has five windows, including small 19th and 20th-century wooden and metal casements, and a segmental-headed boarded door to the right. To the right, there is a 19th-century addition featuring a flat-topped dormer and a sheeted-over ground-floor window.

The left-hand gable end displays an exposed collar and tie-beam truss with queen struts and v-struts, and large dressed yellow and grey sandstone blocks at the base of the stack. The rear of the house has four dormers and a boarded door.

Inside, there are collar and tie-beam trusses with queen struts, staggered purlins, timber-framed cross-walls, chamfered beams with ogee stops, a large open fireplace, and two staircases. The interior of the 19th-century addition has not been inspected. The 19th-century cottage was likely added when the 17th-century farmhouse was divided.