Gateshayes Farmhouse

Gateshayes Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 18th century or early 19th century. It is constructed of cob on a stone plinth, rendered, and features a hipped wheat reed thatched roof. The building has an axial stack at the right-hand end and a right-hand internal end stack. It is two storeys high with a single depth plan and a continuous rear outshut.

The front of the farmhouse has a symmetrical five-window range with pilaster quoins, and the central bay is slightly projected. There is a central portico with a slate floor, a heavily moulded cornice supported by two large, renewed round columns, and Doric pilasters. The doorway features a fluted architrave and reveals, with the door having glazed panels above and plain timber panels below. The ground floor windows are all two-light timber casements with three panes in each light, the topmost panes being segmentally pointed with margin panes. The first floor windows are also two-light timber casements but have square heads.

At the right-hand end of the house, there are two windows: one is a three-light timber casement with six leaded panes in each light, and the other, which is in the outshut, is a two-light horizontally-sliding sash window with twelve leaded panes in each light.

Inside, the farmhouse features fielded panelled internal shutters and some early 19th-century polished limestone and timber fire surrounds. There is a spacious hall and stairwell, along with a good seven-bay roof, which includes two hip bays, with principals, a tie beam, collar halved and side pegged, through purlins, and a diagonal ridgepiece.