Mays Farmhouse

Mays Farmhouse is an early 17th-century farmhouse with a mid-17th century addition, altered in the 19th century and extended in the 20th century. It is constructed of coursed rubble with some roughcast, and has ashlar dressings around the windows and stacks. Original wooden lintels remain, and the porch and gabled roof are built of squared and dressed stone slate. The building has an L-shaped plan, with an earlier range at the rear and a mid-17th century block parallel to the road. The northwest front of the mid-17th century block is two storeys and an attic, with three bays. It features 2 and 3-light hollow-moulded mullion windows from the 19th century, with hoodmoulds; attic windows are set in two gables with ball finials to the apexes. A central porch, dated 1835, has a basket-handle arch, round-headed openings and a ball finial to the apex. The entrance is a 20th-century part-glazed plank door. Tall end stacks are paired with diagonally set, moulded caps. The original two-storey rear range has 19th-century doors and windows and now contains service areas. A 20th-century kitchen extension sits at the rear, set in the angle between the two blocks. Inside, a circular newel staircase is enclosed on the ground floor, but open above. The ground floor rooms have stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops and a mid-17th century through-purlin roof structure.