Pool House

RICHARDS CASTLE

SO46NE PARK LANE 482-1/12/157 (South side) Pool House

II

House. Late C16 with C19 alterations and C20 additions. Painted timber-frame with painted rendered infill panels on stone rubble plinth. Painted rendered masonry to later additions. Plain-tile roof with integral eaves chimney with brick upper shaft and battered stone rubble stack. EXTERIOR: gable facing with entrance in lobby extension to right. Single C20 steel casement to first floor and C19 bay window to ground floor. Close studding with middle rail and small braces to corner posts. First floor jettied. Ground-floor framing of full-height close studding on sill plate. Boxed jetty bressumer with weathering piece. At left corner of ground floor is a chamfered jowled bracketed angle post with stop moulding at foot. Gable-end truss with straight tie beam, 4 struts under collar and twin raking struts over. To right is tiled lean-to entrance-lobby extension incorporating 6-panelled door with projecting gabled porch. Right return with casement set in much altered large rectangular framing with central stone stack with gabled roof abutment each side. C20 bay window at ground level to right. Rear gable end: C20 casement with C20 bay window below set in square framing 4 panels high. Gable-end truss of straight tie beam, 2 struts and collar with boarded opening set between struts. Jowled corner posts. Evidence of single trenched purlin roof. Left-hand side masked by C20 tiled lean-to extension with cement rendered walls and rendered chimney stack to rear. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SO4959169700