NEN Gallery

Bayleaf Farmstead originally from Kent now located at Weald and Downland. This building dates from the 15th or early 16th century. Bayleaf is a timber framed hall house dating mainly from the early 15th century. The open hall in the middle of the house is entered from the screens passage. Next to the passage are the buttery and the pantry. At the other end of the hall a door gives access to an upper chamber known as the 'solar'. The hall is heated by an open fire. The landscape, farming equipment and domestic furniture, which are all modern replicas, show the farmstead as it might have been in about 1540.