The Pound Inn And Attached Barn

The Pound Inn and attached barn is a farmhouse and barn that now serves as an inn. It likely dates from the 15th century or early 16th century, with alterations and additions made around 1600, the late 19th century, and the mid-20th century. The structure features a rendered timber frame, partly built using cruck construction, along with rendered masonry additions and a weatherboarded timber-framed barn, all topped with a thatched roof.

The building has a baffle-entry hall range consisting of two framed bays, with a projecting gabled cross wing to the right and a later addition along with the attached barn to the left. It is one storey high with an attic. Notable features include a central rendered ridge stack, an integral rendered brick end stack to the left, and an integral lateral rendered stack to the left of the cross wing. There are two large gabled eaves dormers, likely from the 17th century, featuring 20th-century three-light wooden casements, with the dormer to the right dated 1650.

On the ground floor, there are two 20th-century three-light leaded wooden casements, one of which forms a canted bay. The central gabled porch has a three-light 20th-century leaded wooden casement at the front and a half-glazed boarded door on the left side, accompanied by an open timber porch. Boarded doors are present to the right and far left, both sheltered by bracketed elliptical-roofed porches. The cross wing to the right includes an attic and a ground-floor 20th-century three-light canted bay window. To the right, there is a 20th-century flat-roofed addition with a canted bay window.

Adjoining to the left is a weatherboarded barn, probably from the early 19th century, featuring a sandstone rubble plinth and a boarded loft door in the gable end. A mounting block is located next to the cross wing on the left. At the rear, there is a two-storey gabled wing with a ridge stack.

Inside, the hall range contains three full cruck trusses. An inserted first floor from around 1600 features a pair of chamfered spine beams with ogee stops and chamfered joists also with ogee stops. An inserted stack from around 1600 has a fireplace that was rebuilt in the 20th century but retains a chamfered wooden lintel. This building became an inn in 1823 after the original Pound Inn was destroyed by fire.