Woodhayes Cottage

Woodhayes Cottage is a Grade II listed cottage that was originally two or three cottages. It dates from the late 17th century, with additions and alterations made in the 18th and 19th centuries. The building is constructed from plastered local stone rubble, with some cob, and features stone rubble stacks topped with plastered brick chimney shafts and a thatched roof.

The cottage has a four-room plan that is built down the hillslope, facing southwest. The larger central rooms are heated by axial stacks that back onto the end rooms. The oldest part of the house is the room to the right (southeast) of the center, which may have been a late 17th-century one-room plan cottage. The other rooms are additions from the 18th and 19th centuries. The two rooms on the right are two storeys high, while the two on the left are single storey.

The exterior features irregular front fenestration with five ground floor windows and two first floor windows. The left first floor window is likely from the 18th century and contains rectangular panes of leaded glass, while the others are various 19th and 20th-century casements with glazing bars. The front doorway, located to the right of center, has a 20th-century plank door beneath a contemporary thatch hood. The roof is hipped to the left and half-hipped to the right.

Inside, the late 17th-century section includes a large stone rubble fireplace with an oak-framed front. The crossbeam in this area has deep chamfers and step stops but has been cut through at the front for the current main stair. The roof over this section was not inspected, but the bases of the straight principals visible on the first floor are large enough to suggest they belong to original A-frame trusses. There is no exposed carpentry elsewhere in the house.