Pool Cottage

Pool Cottage, also known as Pool House, is an estate lodge dating from 1872, likely designed by William Eden Nesfield. It is constructed with a timber frame, plastered infill panels on a red brick plinth, with the brick painted to resemble timber framing. The gables are tile-hung with fishscale tiles, and the roof is covered in fishscale tiles, with a hipped section to the south-east. The building has an irregular T-plan and consists of one storey and an attic.

The south-west front, overlooking the garden, features a chamfered plinth and coved eaves. The roof has lead rolls and globe finials at the apex of the hip and gables. Brick ridge stacks are located at the junction of two ranges, and an external lateral brick stack is present at the rear. This stack comprises a pair of star-shaped shafts with overhanging tops. The left-hand gabled wing has a ground-floor canted bay with a 2:3:2-light wooden mullioned and transomed window. A jettied attic projects above, featuring a roll-moulded bressumer supported by brackets, and a three-light wooden mullioned and transomed oriel window with a hipped roof and a coved base with shaped end brackets. A jettied gable above contains a series of small brackets supporting a roll-moulded tie-beam and wall plates with shaped ends. A lower bressumer is dated "JP & AM / 1872". The right-hand range has a small 2-light attic casement beneath the eaves to the left and a ground-floor 3-light wooden mullioned and transomed window to the right. A boarded door is situated in the angle of the wing to the left, with a roll-moulded surround, and a timber-framed lean-to porch with a polygonal-arched entrance. The porch has chamfered arched braces with carved spandrels, a carved bracket supporting the wall plate to the right, and four ogee-headed side lights. There are two built-in seats within the porch.

The right-hand gable end features a full-height gabled square bay with a 1:4:1-light mullioned and transomed ground-floor window. A slightly jettied attic storey has a roll-moulded bressumer, small brackets, and a four-light mullioned and transomed attic window, with shaped brackets supporting wall plates. The left-hand return front has a ground-floor 3-light wooden casement to the left and an eaves dormer with a bracketed gable and a 3-light wooden casement. A boarded back door to the rear has a moulded surround and a rectangular overlight. The interior has not been inspected. Nesfield also designed Cloverley Hall (near Ightfield), built between 1864 and 1870, but now demolished. This lodge and The Haven are attributed to him based on stylistic similarities.