Dayapeep Farmhouse

Dayapeep Farmhouse is a farmhouse that likely dates back to the early 16th century, with remodels occurring in the 17th century and some alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building is constructed from rendered stone rubble and cob, topped with a thatched roof that is hipped at the left end. There is a lean-to slate roof over the lofted granary and store room at the right end. The farmhouse features a stone rubble stack at the right end and a front lateral hall stack with a brick shaft and offsets.

The layout consists of a three-room through-passage plan, which was originally an open hall house. There is a dairy outshut at the rear of the lower end and a small two-storey projection at the right end, which includes a pantry with a lofted granary and storeroom in front. The building is two storeys high and has a four-window range, with 19th-century two-light casements, each with six panes per light. The hall window is built out in line with the stack and features a 20th-century three-light metal casement. The porch has a gabled slated roof with a basket archway and an inner plank door, along with a two-light casement with six panes per light at the lower end. There is also a 20th-century porch with a slate lean-to roof at the left end.

Inside, much of the 19th-century joinery remains intact, including an old wall bench in the lower end and dairy fittings. The roof structure consists of five trusses, two of which are smoke-blackened, indicating that the house was originally open to the roof from end to end. The original trusses had threaded purlins and morticed and tenoned collars but were reused during the 17th-century re-roofing, fitted with lap-jointed collars to match those of the three new trusses. The farmhouse is situated in an unusually exposed location for a late medieval former open hall house.