Mathayes Farmhouse Including Front Boundary Wall

Mathayes Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating to 1806, although it may incorporate an earlier core. The structure is built of local stone and flint rubble, with dressed limestone quoins. It has stone rubble and brick stacks with 19th and 20th century brick chimneyshafts and a thatched roof. The farmhouse is situated on a gentle hillslope and originally had a 4-room plan with a central through-passage containing the main stair. The passage’s rear doorway is now blocked, and the partition between the passage and the centre left (east) room has been removed. The end rooms are smaller and unheated service rooms, previously used as a dairy and buttery. The larger central rooms each have an axial stack backing onto the outer service rooms. The room to the right of the centre is now the kitchen, although the size of the fireplace in the other main room suggests it was the original kitchen. This symmetrical layout is largely attributable to 1806, although reused 17th century carpentry is present.

The two-storey exterior has a symmetrical 3-window front of 19th and 20th century casement windows in the main rooms, the later ones without glazing bars. A 20th century part-glazed door is in the passage front doorway. Doorways are present at each end leading to the service rooms. Above the central doorway is a Beerstone plaque inscribed with the initials EW and TC, and the words "All you who pass by this stone, cast an eye upon it to be seen how long ago it was put in, 1806". The roof is hipped at each end.

Inside, there is plain 19th century carpentry where exposed, such as a square-section crossbeam in the left centre room and a large brick fireplace with a re-used chamfered and cambered oak lintel. The roof was not inspected. A low stone rubble wall, likely original, runs along the front, enclosing a narrow strip of ground and including a gateway to each of the three front doorways.