Hayne Farmhouse

UPOTTERY ST 10 SE 10/101 Hayne Farmhouse - GV II

Farmhouse. C16 and C17, much rebuilt in the mid - late C19 (probably after a fire). Mostly local stone and flint rubble but there is a section of plastered cob in the rear wall, C19 brick dressings on the front; stone rubble stacks topped with C19 and C20 brick; asbestos slate roof, originally thatch. Plan and development: 4-room plan house facing south and built down the hillslope. Uphill at the right (east) end there are 2 unheated service rooms. The main front and back doorways lead into the inner of these service rooms. Next is the kitchen with an axial stack backing onto a narrow lobby which separates the kitchen and the parlour at the left (west) end which has a gable-end stack. The house originally had a 3-room-and-through-passage plan but was altered and enlarged in the C19. Nevertheless it is clear that the kitchen occupies the hall. It has a large bread oven housing which projects into the lobby behind. This lobby was the original passage but it is blocked by the oven housing. The parlour occupies the service end. Nearly all the roof has been replaced and therefore it is not possible to determine the early structural history although it seems likely that the house began as some form of open hall house. The C19 refurbishment also removed or covered up most of the carpentry detail. The house is 2 storeys with a lean-to outshot on the left (west) end. Exterior: irregular 5-window front of mostly mid - late C19 casements with glazing bars. Some of the ground floor windows have low segmental brick arches over. The front doorway is roughly central and it contains a C19 plank door. The roof is gable-ended to left and half-hipped to right. At the back there are 2 more C19 plank doors and here there are various blocked openings of former windows. Interior: is largely the result of the C19 refurbishment and little earlier detail is exposed. The kitchen/former hall has a C17 axial beam; it has deep chamfers with step stops. The fireplace here is blocked but its large size is evident. The parlour has a C19 crossbeam. The roof is mostly made up of C19 A-frame trusses but there is a probably C17 truss over the parlour. It is plastered below ceiling level but its shape indicates that it is a jointed cruck. The roofspace was not available for inspection at the time of this survey but the farmer reports that this truss is charred from the C19 fire. The house has been little modernised in the C20 and contains a great deal of C19 joinery detail. Despite the earlier origins of this house and the fact that earlier features may be hidden the house must be regarded essentially as a well-preserved C19 house.

Listing NGR: ST1952204702