Haynetown Farmhouse

Haynetown Farmhouse is a building of probable late 16th/early 17th century origin, though heavily remodelled, particularly in the late 17th century, with an extension added in the late 18th century and 20th-century alterations. It is constructed of rendered stone rubble and cob, with a thatch roof that has a plain ridge, is hipped at the left end, and half-hipped at the right end. A slate roof covers a single-story kitchen wing, which has a gable end brick stack. A tall, rear, lateral stone rubble hall stack, heightened in brick, also exists. The original layout comprised three rooms and a through-passage, with the rear doorway blocked. Part of the plank and muntin screen within the lower side of the passage remains, incorporating reused timbers and possibly reset; it may have separated a relative's unit at one point. In the late 18th century, a two-room range was added to the left-hand, lower end, initially used as outbuildings but incorporating a cob axial stack, which showed little evidence of use. A lean-to dairy was added to the right gable end, probably in the late 18th or early 19th century, and a single-story kitchen wing was added to the front of the inner room in the 19th century. This kitchen wing was historically used as a salting house and scullery/dairy and was unheated. In the 20th century, the cob partition between the hall and inner room, reaching only to first-floor level, was removed, and the shaft of the stack heating the lower end was demolished. The original location of the staircase is unknown; the current staircase, probably 19th century, is located in the lower end of the hall, adjoining the through-passage. The building is two stories high and has a five-window front. The windows in the added range are 20th century. The original range features early 20th-century two-light casements, with two panes per light in two windows and one pane in another. The ground floor has a two-light casement with three panes per light to the left of the porch, which has a gabled slate roof, and a three-light hall window with three panes per light to the right. Inside, the hall has a plain chamfered cross ceiling beam. The fireplace lintel has been replaced. Two bread ovens are present, but their projections have been demolished. A partially exposed rear section of plank and muntin screen displays a chamfered and stopped headrail, as if for a doorhead, on one side only, with some chamfered, non-mitred muntins; one muntin appears to be a reused doorjamb with a cut-out for cider barrels. The roof structure over the main range appears to be late 17th or early 18th century, with pegged trusses, straight principals, and purlins resting on the backs with pegged lapped collars. The added range has a similar construction but features waney rafters and dates to the late 18th or early 19th century.