Pool Close Farmhouse

Pool Close Farmhouse is a house that likely originated in the 15th century, was rebuilt in the early 17th century, and again around 1800. The front walls are rebuilt in brick, but there is said to be some timber framing present. The cross wing on the right features ashlar quoins and gable copings topped with a small pine-cone finial. A massive chimney made of dressed stone is located at the left end of the building. The roofs are plain tiled, and there is a rebuilt brick chimney situated between the left bays. The house is designed in an L-shape with an outshot at the rear and has two storeys plus an attic. The front has three bays, with the right bay gabled and projecting. The left bays were rebuilt around 1800 and have small paned wooden windows with glazing bars. The opening lights are horizontal sashes.

On the ground floor, there are 4-light transomed windows with cambered heads; the first floor features a 3-light window to the left, a 4-light window in a moulded frame to the right, and a 2-light window in the centre. The central entrance is a 6-panelled top-lit door set in a wooden architrave frame. The left gable end has a large external chimney dating from the 15th to 16th century, with a door beyond it in a 20th-century lean-to porch. The right bay, rebuilt in the early 17th century, has a rendered chimney on its right side. The front gable includes a wooden window similar to those in the left bays, with 3-light windows on the lower floors and a 2-light window in the attic. The upper windows maintain 17th-century stone surrounds with cyma recta cornices, while similar stone surrounds without cornices are found on the left return.

The interior was not inspected during the 1986 resurvey, but a description from 1960 notes several features: 16th-century moulded ceiling beams in the central ground floor room, a spiral stair from the 17th century or possibly the 16th century with brick treads, a large open fireplace that is partly blocked with a wooden lintel at the left end, and extremely massive tie beams of roof trusses that were formerly over an open hall.