Dye House

Dye House is a detached house, possibly originally a farmhouse, that has been subdivided and was at one time used as a dye factory. It dates from the 17th century and later. The building features plastered cob with stone footings and a gabled-end thatched roof. A distinct vertical joint in the fabric beneath the axial stack suggests there were two builds or a rebuild. The original layout is not easily reconstructed, but it may be an adapted and partially rebuilt three-room, cross-passage plan, with the axial stack, which heats the hall, now part of the right-hand room of the left-hand cottage. The house is two storeys tall and has a front with a four-window range. All the first-floor windows are 19th-century three-light casement windows with lintels at eaves level. The ground floor has four windows, including one 19th-century three-light casement window and others that are later. There are two front doors. Internally, one roughly hewn ceiling beam is visible, but the interior has not been inspected.