diff --git a/haystack/preview/dataclasses/byte_stream.py b/haystack/preview/dataclasses/byte_stream.py
index dd84e1c26b..d3597a5b47 100644
--- a/haystack/preview/dataclasses/byte_stream.py
+++ b/haystack/preview/dataclasses/byte_stream.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 from dataclasses import dataclass, field
 from pathlib import Path
-from typing import Optional, Dict, Any
+from typing import Dict, Any, Optional, Union
 
 
 @dataclass(frozen=True)
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ class ByteStream:
 
     data: bytes
     metadata: Dict[str, Any] = field(default_factory=dict, hash=False)
+    path: Optional[Union[str, Path]] = None
     mime_type: Optional[str] = field(default=None)
 
     def to_file(self, destination_path: Path):
diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/path-for-bytestream-7d9b768254707f1f.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/path-for-bytestream-7d9b768254707f1f.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..542b03f115
--- /dev/null
+++ b/releasenotes/notes/path-for-bytestream-7d9b768254707f1f.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+preview:
+  - Introduces a `path` optional field to ByteStream.