Haydon House

House. The core of the house dates from the late 17th century, with a significant enlargement or partial rebuilding in the early 19th century. The entrance was resited on the south front, and the building was altered in the mid-to-late 20th century.

The exterior is rendered and roughcast, with painted brick visible on the east front. The north front has three gables with coped verges. A parallel rear range has central gables on both the east and west fronts, also with coped verges. The roof is covered with asbestos slates, with a shallow-pitched hipped slate roof on the south front. There's a moulded cornice and brick stacks. The original layout is unclear, but it's a double-pile building with an original staircase centrally located on the north front, and a two-cell and cross passage layout with a staircase in the south front addition.

The north front, which serves as the entrance front, is two storeys high with three gables, and has an irregular fenestration pattern. The left two gable bays contain two cruciform windows on each floor. The ground floor windows and the stair window are set at mezzanine level to the right. The end gable on the right has been refenestrated, with a small window in the gable end and C20 windows on each floor. A recessed doorway with a segmental head is on the left.

The east front reveals the best evidence of the original building, although the southeast corner has been altered and a raking buttress added. A central gable features a small window below a flat string band. The first floor appears to have six rectangular brick recessed panels, which are not symmetrical and rest on a flat string with keystones to three semi-circular arches below. These are set off centre and have been partly rebuilt, incorporating a C19 three-light casement. A blocked doorway is at the centre left, and the entrance end bay is on the right.

The rear elevation (south front) has two storeys and three bays, with 16-pane sash windows. A central double door with a fanlight is fronted by an eight-bay verandah, supported by wooden piers, and with a hipped bitumen covered slate roof.

Inside, the house has been altered, but a late 17th-century staircase with turned balusters and a moulded handrail remains. An early 19th-century stick stair with a cut string has been added, together with a built-in dresser featuring three tall barley-sugar twist columns and Ionic capitals dating from around 1700. This dresser represents a rare survival of built-in furniture from that period. The relationship of the house to the outbuilding to the east is not fully understood, and it is believed that a similar range once existed on the west front, but nothing of this range remains now.