Bage Pool

The Bage is a mid-16th century farmhouse, with later alterations and additions. It is constructed of rubble and timber-frame with wattle-and-daub infill, and has a stone slate roof. The building has an L-shaped plan, consisting of a hall range extending west and a cross-wing to the north. A cider house, dating to the 18th century, is set at a slight angle to the west end of the hall range.

The hall range was originally timber-framed, while the cross-wing is of rubble construction. A stack is located at the west end of the hall range, incorporating a staircase on its north side and a door on its south side. Another stack is found at the north end of the cross-wing, with a spiral staircase on its west side and a blocked entrance on its east side; both stacks feature two diamond shafts.

The south front has two storeys, with an attic to the cross-wing. The hall range has four irregular sized windows, all with 4-pane boxed sashes. A 17th-century stack is situated between two windows to the right. The ground floor of the hall range includes a 3-light casement to the left, and a roughly central angled bay window with 1:2:1 glazing bar sashes and a hipped slate roof. The cross-wing features a 4-pane boxed sash window in the attic, a 12-pane boxed sash on the first floor, and a 20th-century French window on the ground floor. A straight joint is visible between the rubble wall and the rubble of the stack at the left end of the hall range.

The 18th-century cider house is two storeys high and has two 2-light casements under segmental heads on each floor. An entrance is located to the right, also with a segmental head. The north wall has exposed timber-framing on the first floor, two square panels high, which was formerly jettied over the ground floor and has been partially under-built in late 19th-century brick. A lean-to timber structure, likely dating to the late 16th century, contains a 19th-century dairy.

Internally, the hall range is divided by a timber-framed partition, with the room to the west likely originally being the kitchen. The first floor is divided by stud-and-plank partitions with their own top-plates, independent of the ceiling beams, and these appear to have been reset. The roof trusses have tie-beams and two trenched purlins, arranged in five bays over the hall range, excluding the chimney stack.