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Hayes Farm is brick built with tiled roofs. There is a three bay main range on the front with dormers to the attic storey, a single storey three bay range to the rear on the south-west side and a three storey 'turret' in the angle between the two ranges. There is a two-flue single chimney stack on the south east elevation of the front range and a multi-flue stack on the junction of the two ranges. The original brickwork is in English bond (alternate rows of headers and stretchers) and is visible on the end elevations, the external stack, a small area of rear walling and the gable walling of the stair turret. Hayes Farm is a single-pile building in three units which still echoes the medieval plan. However, the 'hall' has shrunk to a mere entry, and the proportions are different, with high ceilings on the ground floor. Originally the house was without a formal stair to the attic, access was probably from within the rear stair ‘turret’. The dropped tie construction gave ample storage and potential 'lodging' space in the attics but without formal access. It is logical to conclude that there was always a rear ‘service’ wing associated with the cooking hearth in the single storey range, although this seems to have been remodelled. Although the dropped tie construction would place the building after c1580 and the in-line butt-purlins date to the seventeenth century, the proportions and shrinkage of the hall suggest a date nearer the second half of the seventeenth century. The modern ground floor plan remains remarkably unchanged from that recorded in a 1797 survey of the Buxted Park estate when the house was owned by Mrs Elizabeth Verrall. These notes have been compiled from survey reports prepared by Dr Annabelle Hughes. |
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Hayes Farm, 1798. |
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