Hayes Cottage

Hayes Cottage is an 18th-century cottage, later refenestrated in the 20th century. The ground floor is built of red brick, with grey brick headers on the east side only, and English bond elsewhere, including a tumbled-in triangular buttress on the southwest corner. The upper floor is timber-framed and clad in tiles. The roof is tiled, gabled to the south, hipped to the north, and with a catslide to the west, featuring a brick chimneystack at each end.

The cottage has a two-bay plan with an integral rear outshot, consisting of two rooms and an outshot on the ground floor, and three rooms above. The front (east) elevation features two 20th-century tripartite casement windows and a doorcase with a wooden weatherhood on brackets, leading to a 19th-century four-panelled door. The north side has two small casement windows, whilst the west side has a central top-opening casement, a metal-framed casement, and a 20th-century plank door.

The interior, when inspected, had been stripped of internal partitions, revealing the structural timber frame and lacking a staircase. A large open fireplace with a wooden bressumer is present on the south side, alongside a smaller fireplace above. The ground floor south bay has a spine beam with a one-inch chamfer and run-out stops. The upper floor frame features central jowled upright posts with square profiles, curved corner posts, and diagonal braces to the west, east, and north wall frames. The roof structure includes common rafters, a ridgepiece, and collars.

The building is shown on the 1871 Ordnance Survey map without a name, maintaining a consistent rectangular profile on subsequent maps from 1898 and 1908. Evidence of a sheepfold in a nearby field on early maps suggests a possible shepherd's residence.

Hayes Cottage is designated at Grade II for being a substantially intact 18th-century two-bay end chimneystack house with an integral outshot, containing much original fabric and some decorative detail. Its significance is further enhanced by its presence within a group of listed buildings within an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.