Pond House Farmhouse

Pond House Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 15th century or early 16th century, with an extension added in the early 17th century, along with later modifications. It is timber framed with painted brick infill and has slate roofs. The building is arranged in an L-shape, consisting of a hall range with four unevenly sized framed bays and a short two-bay cross-wing added to the left in the early 17th century. It has two storeys.

The framing features square panels, with four panels extending from the cill to the wall-plate, and short straight tension braces on the back wall of the hall range. The front has two panels above an inserted brick plinth. The right gable end is clad in late 20th-century brick, while the left gable end was rebuilt in mid-19th-century brick but retains its jowled wall posts. The cross-wing has both square and rectangular panels, also with four panels from cill to wall-plate and short straight tension braces, along with upper and lower collars featuring vertical struts.

Windows are a mix of late 19th-century and 20th-century casements, arranged in a 1:2 pattern. The entrance is through a mid-19th-century gabled brick porch that contains a four-panel door with a pointed overlight positioned at the angle between the two ranges. A red brick ridge stack is located directly above, with a subsidiary brick stack on the front part of the roof slope to the far right.

Inside, the ground-floor rooms have chamfered ceiling beams, with those in the main room featuring unusually shaped ogee stops. There is a large inglenook fireplace with a chamfered wooden lintel. An oak winder staircase reveals a jowled wall-post with a brace supporting the tie beam. Throughout the house, there are plank and muntin doors with pointed strap hinges. The collar and tie beam roof in the hall range, which includes the chimney bay, has double purlins and straight windbraces. The farmhouse is situated within a well-preserved oval-shaped moat, which is now dry.