The Haven

The Haven is an estate lodge dating to 1875, likely designed by William Eden Nesfield. It is timber framed with plastered infill panels resting on a red brick plinth. The gables are tile-hung, and the roof is tiled with a hipped section to the left. The building has an irregular T-shaped plan and one storey with an attic. Features include a chamfered plinth and coved eaves. Globe finials are present at the apex of the hip and gables. There are brick stacks: one at the junction of two ranges, and an external lateral stack to the rear, each featuring a pair of star-shaped shafts with oversailing tops.

The right-hand, gabled wing has a ground-floor canted bay with a wooden mullioned and transomed window of 2 lights over 3 lights over 2 lights. Above this is a jettied attic with a roll-moulded bressumer and end brackets. An attic oriel window features 3 lights with a wooden mullioned and transomed design, a hipped roof, and a coved base with shaped end brackets. A jettied gable displays a series of small brackets supporting a roll-moulded tie-beam and wall plates with shaped eaves. A lower bressumer is inscribed with "JP & AM / 1875". The left-hand range incorporates a small 2-light attic casement and a ground-floor 3-light mullioned and transomed window. A boarded door sits within an angle of the wing, framed by a roll-moulded surround, and is sheltered by a lean-to timber-framed porch with a polygonal-arched entrance, chamfered arched braces with carved spandrels, a carved bracket supporting a wall plate to the left, and four ogee-headed side lights. The left-hand gable end has a full-height gabled square bay with a 1 light over 4 lights over 1 light mullioned and transomed ground-floor window. The attic above has a slightly jettied roll-moulded bressumer and small brackets, a 4-light mullioned and transomed window, and shaped brackets supporting wall plates. The right-hand return front includes two 20th-century dormers with two-light casements. 20th-century additions are present at the rear. The interior has not been inspected. Nesfield designed Cloverley Hall nearby (built 1864-70, now demolished). This lodge and Pool Cottage are attributed to him based on stylistic similarities.