Haywood Farmhouse

Haywood Farmhouse is a Grade II listed farmhouse dating from the early 16th century, with later alterations and additions. It is constructed of cob with a stone plinth and is plastered, featuring gabled-end and hipped slate roofs. Originally, it was a three-room, through-passage house, with a two-bay barn added or rebuilt to the left-hand end in the 17th century, and a cross-wing added to the right-hand higher end in the mid-19th century. The lower end has always been two storeys, and the first floor of the parlour was inserted well before the later changes, while the hall shows signs of heavy sooting on the roof.

The main range has two axial stacks, one backing onto the passage and heating the hall, and the other, now axial, which may have originally been the stack for the lower end. There is also an end stack for the cross-wing, all featuring brick shafts. The farmhouse is two storeys throughout, including the barn.

The front of the house has a three-window range, with two and three-light casement windows on the first floor (two of which are 19th century with glazing bars) and two three-light 19th-century casement windows on the ground floor. There is a doorway leading to the former passage, with the opposing door now blocked, situated under a slate-roofed porch supported by shaped brackets. The barn extension includes an entrance and hay loft access above. The 19th-century cross-wing features two-light casement windows on the first floor and one three-light window on the ground floor, accessed through a doorway in a lean-to at the end of the wing. The rear of both the wing and main range has two- and three-light casement windows from the 19th and 20th centuries.

Inside, the hall contains three cross beams that are chamfered with diagonal stops, and a chamfered fireplace. The lower end room has one axial, chamfered beam that is unstopped. Although the lower end passage screen has been removed, the mortices are still visible on the underside of the bressumer, and a beam inserted above suggests that the screen may have been of medieval origin. The roof features four jointed crucks; the lower end trusses are clean, while the lower-end trusses of the hall are closed and sooted only on the hall side. The hall is a single bay with wind braces on each side, and the parlour is lightly smoke-blackened. All crucks are morticed and side pegged at the apex, with a diagonal ridge piece, cranked collars, and trenched purlins.