The Highwaysmans Haunt

The Highwayman's Haunt is a house dating to around the late 16th or early 17th century, with significant renovations and additions in the late 20th century. It is currently in use as a restaurant. The exterior is whitewashed cob and stone, with a thatched roof that is hipped at the left end and gabled at the right end. Brick chimney shafts are visible at both ends of the building, aligned axially.

The original layout comprised three rooms and a passage (the passage is no longer present). The lower end of the house, situated to the right, appears to have been substantially rebuilt. A rear wing, originally a dairy, extends at a right angle from the inner room on the left. A single-storey block was added to the left end, a similar addition on the right, and at the rear, a large single-storey addition fills the angle between the main range and the rear wing.

The front facade is asymmetrical, with a four-window arrangement. The thatch is swept down over the single-storey block on the left end. There is no front door on the main range; the 20th-century entrance is located in the single-storey block on the right end. The windows are 2-light casements with glazing bars.

Internally, despite modernization and change of use, some original features remain. Two-sided pegged jointed cruck roof timbers are visible over the hall and inner room, with collars mortised into the principals. Roof access was not possible during the 1986 survey. On the ground floor, the former inner room (left end) has a chamfered cross beam with stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops; the hall has a chamfered cross beam with scroll stops. Fragments of a plank and muntin screen with diagonal stops to the muntins survive between the hall and inner room. A hearth tax record from 1333 shows the property paying 9s 4 1/2d.