Outbuilding With Wall Adjoining South East Corner Of Haydon House

Agricultural buildings, likely dating from the late 17th century, were undergoing restoration in December 1984. Constructed of red brick in a mixed bond, the building features a moulded plinth and a double Roman tiled roof with coped verges, topped by a brick stack at the south gable end. The plan comprises three rooms, without evidence of a cross passage partition; a kitchen at the south end, a small central room, and a larger room to the north. It is linked to Haydon House (listed separately) via a brick wall.

The west front, facing Haydon House, is two storeys high and features tiny, unglazed, rectangular lights set between the eaves and a dog-tooth moulded string course. Brick pilasters are set on a plain string, forming nine recessed panels; the second, fourth, sixth, and eighth panels contain semi-circular lintels and keystones to louvred openings. The ground floor has four empty bays, with a pair of semi-circular headed doorways, keystones, ovolomoulded surrounds, and original doors in the fifth panel. An original arrangement was mirrored in the seventh bay to the right of a small vent, but the left-hand doorway has been heightened to accommodate a stair. A three-light casement window is located in the end bay to the right.

The south gable end has dog-tooth moulded string courses below the apex and below two square-headed window openings. The ground floor is unlit. The east front contains a loft opening, a plain string course, square-headed surrounds and original doors, with a particularly large doorway to the north end room.

A brick wall, joined only on a few upper courses, links the south-west corner of the outbuilding to the south-east raking buttress of Haydon House, and includes a square-headed doorway.

The interior, partially visible, reveals chamfered beams with scroll stops, an original stair, and step-and-runout stops to the chamfered lintel of a fireplace with a bread oven on the left and a copper on the right. The roof structure is unusual, with queen post trusses and mixed, nailed joints set between ceiling beams bearing wallplates. A drain in the large north room suggests a former stable with a cider house in the centre and a wash and bake house at the south end, although the building's original purpose is unclear. The building is a rare early example of a high-quality brick structure in Somerset, retaining most of its original features.