Mayles

Mayles is a house dating to around the mid-17th century, with extensions and alterations made around 1700, the early to mid-19th century, approximately 1860, the late 19th century, and the 20th century. It is constructed of English Flemish garden wall and stretcher bond brick, colourwashed and partly rendered, with clay plain tile roofs and gabled ends. Brick axial and gable stacks are present, with the original stacks having moulded bases to their rebuilt, diagonally-set shafts.

The house has a plan comprising three parallel ranges. The front range incorporates the original two-room plan house to the southwest, with gable-end stacks, extended to the right around 1700 by two bays and again to the right in the 20th century by one bay. Around the early to mid-19th century, a stairhall range was built behind the original house. Roughly around 1860, a range containing a drawing room was added behind the stairhall, forming an overall L-shaped plan, which was later filled in during the late 19th century by a large service range.

The southeast front is asymmetrical with four windows. The two-window range to the left represents the original house, featuring a moulded brick plinth, a blocked central doorway (now a sash window), and 17th-century four-light first-floor windows, one with replaced mullions. Later four-light windows are located to the right, all with casements and horizontal glazing bars. The ground floor has sash windows without glazing bars, along with two late-19th-century brick canted bay windows and a Victorian gabled brick porch with a Tudor arch, a small light above, and glazed sides. The southwest side has three gables, the right of which features large stacks with set-offs, the centre has a garden door and a casement above, and the left is advanced with a large canted bay window and a smaller bay window above. A 20th-century conservatory is located to the right.

The interior of the original house features lightly chamfered ceiling beams, some of which have been hacked back for plaster, but one retains a cyma stop. The fireplace at the southwest end has a shaped bressumer, moulded shelf, and a Victorian chimneypiece. The range dating to around 1700 has an original two-bay roof. The early to mid-19th-century wing contains an open-well staircase with stick balusters, a moulded mahogany handrail, and turned newel posts. Most of the internal joinery dates to the 19th and 20th centuries, but a cupboard in the service range contains reused 18th-century fielded-panel doors or window shutters.