Pond Farmhouse

Pond Farmhouse is a house with a late medieval core, later encased in stone and extensively renovated around 1977. It has a three-bay plan with a range of outshuts under a catslide roof. The construction is of irregular gritstone rubble with a 20th-century cement-tiled roof, revealing cruck framing. Bay divisions are marked on the front elevation by a jagged masonry joint to the left and an exposed cruck blade foot to the right. The house has two storeys and three windows to the first floor. There are 20th-century doors and wood casement windows, all with shallow stone lintels. A boarded door is located at the left end, with a two-light window to its right. Another boarded door sits to the right, flanked by three-light windows. A central three-light casement window is positioned on the first floor, with a two-light window on either side. A rebuilt ridge stack is present.

The interior retains substantial remains of a medieval cruck-framed open-hall house. Three cruck pairs are visible, with the left cruck frame displaying the top of an octagonal post set between two tie beams, forming a decorative open truss that is now embedded within the gable wall, indicating the original building was truncated. To the right of this truss, the rear side wall retains an ogee-headed wooden lintel marking the former location of a cross passage. An archaeological examination of the house is documented in P.F. Ryder’s “Timber Framed Buildings in South Yorkshire.”