The Clayes

The Clayes is a house dating from the late 15th century or early 16th century. It is timber-framed and rendered, with exposed first floor framing that is arch braced at the corners. The roof is hipped and thatched, featuring wide oversailing eaves. The building has three cells and two storeys, with scattered fenestration of replaced casements that include leaded lights. The central ground floor has a bay window with four lights, and there is a single first floor window with two lights to the right hand bay. An axial brick stack, dating from the 19th century, rises from the building.

Inside, there is a late 16th century and later stack, and a four-centre arched doorhead located at the rear of the stack. A doorway on the lower side of the bay window is blocked. The rear ground and first floor feature mullion windows with shutter slides, with the centre bay of the first floor retaining its mullions. There is a heavy chamfered beam over the stack and early boarded doors with strap hinges. The building was formerly a beer house.