Hayne

Details

SX 48 NW STOWFORD

3/273 Hayne - 14.6.52

GV II*

House, disused at time of survey, 1985. Circa 1810, "complete" circa 1865 (White). The house was the seat of the Harris family from C16 until 1864. Stone rubble brought to course with slate roofs with hipped ends concealed by parapets, Gothic style rendered brick chimneys with paired octagonal shafts and, corner buttresses with set-offs rise to tall gabled pinnacles with finials. There is a tradition that the right-hand (north) end of the house incorporates part of the pre 1810 Harris manor house. Picturesque Gothic design of circa 1810, approximately rectangular in plan and arranged round a central stair hall lit from above. The principal elevation faces north east and the house is built into the slope of the land at the south and west. Unusually thick walls and some slate floors at the right-hand service end suggest that part of the pre 1810 house may have been adapted as the service wing of the new house. The 1810 design has pre-archaeological gothic timber and stone panel traceried windows, a battlemented parapet and buttresses with set-offs. The circa 1865 work externally appears to be restricted to some minor alterations to the main entrance and possibly to the right-hand service end. 2 storeys. 9-window approximately symmetrical front divided into 5 bays. The central 3 bays are broken forward between diagonal buttresses with the middle entrance 3-window bay slightly set-back. A hollow chamfer and bead string course below the battlementing changes to a hollow-chamfered string in the outer right-hand bay which has an angle buttress at the right-hand end. There is a diagonal buttress at the left-hand end of the left bay. Central arched half-glazed front door with cusped timber tracery in the head. The door is flanked by buttresses which probably date from the circa 1865 work and similar buttresses flank the central bay. 2-light timber traceried arched windows to either side of the front door, three 2-light stone arched traceried windows to the first floor. The battlemented parapet is carried on shallow corbels to the central bay. The bays to the right and left of the entrance bay have 2-light stone traceried windows with square-heads and hoodmoulds with moulded label stops. The outer left- hand bay has 1- and 2-light timber traceried windows in rectangular architraves. The outer right-hand bay has 2-light stone traceried windows with hoodmoulds with moulded label stops to the ground floor only. The south east elevation is gabled to the front at the right-hand end and has a wide 3-sided entrance turret to the ballroom at the left-hand end. Fenestration of 2-, 3- and 4-light timber panel traceried windows, the first floor windows arched. The south west elevation has the ground floor concealed by the slope of the land and a grand 4-light 4-centred arched timber traceried window lighting the ballroom and flanked by paired buttresses with set-offs terminating in tall pinnacles. Other windows are 2- and 3-light with timber tracery in rectangular architraves. The north west elevation has a first floor oriel window with diamond leaded panes and a projecting stair turret with a pyramidal lead roof that rises above the main roofline. Interior Considerable survival of ambitious Gothic fittings. The notable central stair hall has an imperial stair with Gothic balusters and wreathed handrails. The first flight leads up to a long landing, lit from above, to the ballroom. The landing has open Gothic timber screens at each end, each with 3 cusped arches below trefoil-headed arcading. The main entrance hall has a chimney piece, doors and plasterwork of circa 1810. Fittings surviving in the ballroom wing include chimney pieces and grand decorated ribbed plaster ceilings enriched with foliage motifs, bosses and pendants. Ground floor room left has a timber cornice decorated with carved flowers. The ornate ceilings of the ballroom wing probably post-date 1810. In the early C19 Hayne was the site of some consciously antique ceremonials recorded by J.B. Wollocombe in his history of Stowford parish. A quarry in a part of the grounds known as "the Wilderness" was adapted as a picturesque meeting room for the local hunt and a stretch of ground to the south east of the house is said to have been used for archery. Hayne was purchased by the Blackburn family in the 1860s and Wollocombe describes some of the alterations to the house in the late C19. Pevsner attributes the 1810 build to Sir Jeffry Wyatville but Hayne does not appear in Robinsons catalogue of Wyatville's works. J.B. Wollocombe From Morn till Eve J.M. Robinson The Wyatts (1979)

Listing NGR: SX4219086680

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Sources

Books and journals
Robinson, J M, The Wyatt Family An Architectural Dynasty, (1979)
Wollocombe, J, From Morn till Eve, ()

Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 11 Devon,

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