Haywood Farmhouse

This is a late 16th-century farmhouse, potentially with earlier origins. It is constructed of stone rubble and cob, with a rag slate roof featuring several probably early crested ridge tiles. The farmhouse has brick axial and end stacks. The original layout is uncertain but likely comprised a three-room and cross-passage arrangement. One possibility is that the current entrance to the left of centre was originally a rear door, with a heated hall to the left and an unheated room to the right. A blocked entrance to the right of centre exists, opposite a rear door. A thick cross wall contains the flue of the hall stack. The purpose of a blocked door in the back of the hall stack is unknown. An opening in the rear wall of the hall may have originally led to a stair turret, although this has since been replaced with a small 19th-century outshut. Circa early 19th-century outshuts were added to the rear of the hall and right-hand room, with a later dairy built to the front of the left-hand room. The two-storey front has an asymmetrical three-window facade with a 19th-century lean-to outshut at the front left, incorporating a stone rubble porch and a 20th-century door. Windows are mostly 2-light casements, with a leaded-glass window above the hall window, possibly dating to the 18th or early 19th century. Pigeon holes are visible in the left-hand side elevation. The right-hand room has a 20th-century fireplace and a window that previously served as a cold store. The hall fireplace has been rebuilt in the 20th century. The ceiling features heavy chamfered cross beams with buried stops and almost complete chamfered secondary beams with run-out stops. Mortices in the cross beam near the fireplace indicate alterations. A framed 20th-century staircase is present. On the first floor, a late 17th-century panelled door has been reused as a cupboard door, featuring raised and fielded panels and a rounded top. The roof structure above the hall was replaced in the 18th century, with only the crude, slightly chamfered feet of the principals remaining, and a possible secondary roof structure of the 19th century above.