Stotehayes

Stotehayes is a house dating from the early 16th century, originally designed as a hall house with an inserted floor. It is constructed of stone rubble and features a thatched hipped roof. The building has two storeys and a five-window range, with mostly modern casements, although it retains some wooden ovolo moulded and chamfered mullion windows, all fitted with leaded panes. Notably, there is a window at the east end with cusped pointed arches that contain three narrow lights. The central doorway has a chamfered four-centred arch and is framed in timber, leading to an old boarded door. At the rear, there is a wing that creates an L-shaped plan, along with a later outshut that is also thatched. Inside, the house features smoke-blackened jointed cruck trusses and a plank and muntin screen that separates the cross passage. There is an inserted central chimney stack with a heavy timber bressummer above the fireplace, and a shouldered arch that leads to the remains of the screen in the upper end. The staircase is a newel type.