Hay Farmhouse

Hay Farmhouse is an early 17th-century farmhouse, with additions from the early 19th century. It is constructed of random rubble in the 17th century and red brick in the 19th century, with a plain tile roof featuring coped verges and a brick ridge stack. The house has a T-shaped plan, with a 19th-century principal range aligned north-east/south-west and an earlier 17th-century wing at the south-west end, aligned north-west/south-east, facing north-west.

The north-west front shows a gabled wing to the left and the principal range to the right, with two stories and a gable-lit attic, displaying a 1:2 window arrangement. The 17th-century wing has a brick coped plinth and a brick band at the height of the ground floor window heads. It features three-light chamfer mullioned windows with rendered mullions and surrounds imitating ashlar. There is a three-tier arrangement of attic lights in the proportions of 3:2:1 from lowest to uppermost, with brick dripstones. A 20th-century casement window has been inserted to the ground floor left.

The principal range has two blocked windows with straight heads to the first floor and a casement window to the ground floor to the left of centre, with a segmental head. A dentilled eaves band is present. In the re-entrant angle between the principal range and the crosswing is a 17th-century single-bay former staircase wing or porch; it contains single-light windows with chamfered surrounds and brick dripstones, with the ground floor front window replaced by a segmental headed casement. A 19th-century lean-to porch is attached to the right, with a segmental headed six-panel door on the right hand return.

The south-east front features a gabled wing to the right, with the same window arrangement as the north-west front, and the principal range to the left, which incorporates two segmental-headed casements to the first floor and an inserted attic casement to the centre, breaking through the eaves band. A segmental headed door is located to the left. In the re-entrant angle, a two-storey, single-bay brick extension incorporates casements, and to its left, a blind, single-storey lean-to extension.

Inside the wing, there is a heavy chamfered spine beam with run-out stops and a 17th-century battened and boarded door. The principal range likely replaces an earlier building on the same site.