Clayway

Clayway is a former farmhouse dating from around 1500 or earlier, with later alterations and a 20th-century extension on the left side. The building is constructed of cob with a stone plinth and has a rendered finish beneath a thatched roof with gabled ends. It originally featured a three-room cross-passage plan, although the entrance to the former passage is now blocked. The farmhouse has two storeys and includes a 20th-century end stack and an axial brick stack that backs onto the former passage.

The front elevation has a scattered arrangement of windows, including a left-hand porch with a slate roof, and the first ground and first-floor windows on the left are part of the 20th-century extension. The older part of the building features four two-light windows on the first floor, all of which are timber casements from the 20th century. There are five raking buttresses on the front wall.

At the rear, the older section has three single-light windows, including a small stair window. Inside, the hall has a beam that is chamfered with hollow step stops, and a fireplace with stone jambs and a timber lintel that is also chamfered with run-out stops. The lower-end room contains a roughly-hewn, unchamfered beam. The roof structure consists of two principals above the upper end, a tie beam, a collar, and trenched purlins, which are morticed and side-pegged at the apex, with smoke-blackening evident throughout. The building has been partially inspected.