Wayside

Wayside is a farmhouse that has been converted into a cottage. It dates back to the late medieval period, with a ceiling added in the 16th century and minor alterations made in the 18th century. The building was refenestrated in the late 19th to early 20th century. The exterior is rendered over rubble, featuring a double Roman tile roof with a slight bell-cast, decorative ridge tiles, and roughcast stacks at the gable ends.

The plan is a simple ended open hall house that originally extended further west, now ceiled to a two-cell layout with a staircase against the central axial wall. The building has two storeys and two bays, with irregularly placed three-light casement windows. The entrance is centrally located, leading to a double Roman tiled lean-to porch that is roughcast and from the 20th century. The right side of the building is unlit, and there is said to be an altered four-light hollow chamfered mullioned window on the rear elevation.

Although the interior has not been seen, it is reported to contain a smoke-blackened joint cruck truss with evidence of the original arch-braced open hall roof, including wind bracing. There is a 17th-century staircase beside the remains of an earlier timber-framed partition at the east end, which features a small shell-headed niche and a fielded panelled door below it, next to a semi-circular brick fireplace. Another fielded panelled door leads to a room. The width of the dwelling is noted to be exceptional, suggesting that it may be the remains of a medieval house of some quality.