Pool House

The Pool House in Richards Castle is a house dating from the late 16th century, with 19th-century alterations and 20th-century additions. It features a painted timber frame with rendered infill panels set on a stone rubble plinth, while the later additions are made of painted rendered masonry. The roof is covered with plain tiles and includes an integral eaves chimney with a brick upper shaft and a battered stone rubble stack.

On the exterior, the gable end faces the entrance, which is located in a lobby extension to the right. There is a single 20th-century steel casement window on the first floor and a 19th-century bay window on the ground floor. The structure displays close studding with a middle rail and small braces on the corner posts, and the first floor is jettied. The ground-floor framing consists of full-height close studding on a sill plate, with a boxed jetty bressumer featuring a weathering piece. At the left corner of the ground floor, there is a chamfered jowled bracketed angle post with stop moulding at the base. The gable-end truss includes a straight tie beam, four struts under the collar, and twin raking struts above.

To the right, there is a tiled lean-to entrance lobby extension that incorporates a six-panelled door with a projecting gabled porch. The right return has a casement window set within much-altered large rectangular framing, featuring a central stone stack with gabled roof abutments on either side. A 20th-century bay window is located at ground level to the right. The rear gable end includes a 20th-century casement window with a 20th-century bay window below, set in square framing four panels high. The gable-end truss here has a straight tie beam, two struts, and a collar with a boarded opening situated between the struts. The corner posts are jowled, and there is evidence of a single trenched purlin roof. The left side of the building is obscured by a 20th-century tiled lean-to extension, which has cement rendered walls and a rendered chimney stack at the rear. The interior has not been inspected.