The Bay

The Bay is a house built from whitewashed rubble stone, featuring a steep Roman-tile roof, which may have originally been stone-tiled, and whitewashed end chimneys topped with later brick stacks. The building has a two-storey double depth plan with an addition on the left gable, likely a wash-house. The front has four windows, with the left two being part of a 19th-century enlargement, while the right side represents the original structure. All windows are mid-19th century timber casements beneath timber lintels, arranged as 3 + 3 panes below and 2 + 2 above, although the right end is now largely covered by creeper. The main entrance is through a plain boarded door on the left, with a broader door on the right. The roof is plain and has external stacks with offsets at both ends. To the left, there is a single-storey outhouse that has a similar window and boarded door at the front, as well as another door on the gable end; the rear pitch of this outhouse is covered with pantiles instead of Roman tiles. The rear wall is mostly blank, single-storey, and partly obscured by ivy, featuring a 19th-century plank door in the centre, which is part of the original house, along with a single casement window to its left.

The interior was not inspected during the resurvey as the building is disused. The main entrance leads into the later part of the house, which contains a central timber dog-leg staircase and a parlour that steps down to the left. To the right is a hall with a beamed ceiling, including one particularly large chamfered beam between the stairs and the hall. This end of the house has a gable-end staircase that winds around the chimney stack. The collared roof trusses are hidden but appear to retain some original purlins, and there are boarded doors throughout.