The Haven

The Haven is a building dating from the early 18th century, likely a remodelling of an earlier 17th-century house, with later extensions and minor alterations in the 20th century. It is constructed of dressed limestone and features a plain tile roof with gabled ends topped with ball finials, along with an ashlar axial stack.

The building has a two-room plan with a lobby entrance in front of a central axial stack. This stack contains back-to-back fireplaces that heat the hall and kitchen on the right and a slightly smaller parlour on the left. There are winder stairs at the back of the stack that rise from the hall/kitchen, which has an oven in the fireplace. A small unheated service room is located in a narrow range behind the hall/kitchen, which projects to the right and has been extended to the left behind the parlour.

The exterior is two storeys with an attic and features an almost symmetrical three-bay west front. This front includes chamfered stone three-light mullion windows with casements and continuous hoodmoulds. Above the ground floor windows, the hoodmould rises over a central chamfered stone doorway with a fielded six-panel door, where the top panels are glazed. There is a smaller single-light central window above the door and two large 20th-century hipped dormers. The south gable end has chamfered stone mullion two-light windows with hoodmoulds, along with a 20th-century attic window above. A lower two-storey back range projects to the right and features a gable-end stack.

Inside, the hall/kitchen has a chamfered axial beam with long cyma stops at one end and a large dressed stone fireplace with a stop-chamfered timber bressumer, along with an oven beneath the stone winder stairs to the right. Fielded two-panel doors are present throughout. The parlour on the left has a roughly-hewn axial beam that was previously plastered over, and a stone fireplace with a timber bressumer. The chamber above features a small stone fireplace with a rounded back, while the right-hand chamber has a chamfered cross-beam. Large purlins are exposed in the attic chambers.