Clayway

SX 99 NE BROADCLYST

5/6 Clayway -

• II

Former farmhouse. Circa 1500 or earlier with later alterations and a C20 left-hand extension. Cob, stone plinth, rendered under gabled-end thatched roof. Originally a 3-room cross-passage plan, the former passage entrance now blocked. One C20 end stack, and an axial brick stack backing onto former passage. 2 storeys. Front: Scattered fenestration. Left-hand porch with slate roof together with the first left-hand ground and 1st floor windows belong to the C20 extension. Of the remainder: four 2-light windows to 1st floor; all timber casements C20. 5 raking buttressts on front wall. Rear: to the old part, 3 single-light windows including a small stair window. Interior: Hall with beam, chamfered with hollow step stops; fireplace with stone jamb and timber chamfered lintel with run-out stops. Lower-end room with roughly- hewn beam, unchamfered. Roof: 2 principals above upper end, tie beam, collar, trenched purlins; morticed and side-pegged at apex; smoke-blackened throughout. (Partially inspected).

Listing NGR: SX9932199105