Pool House

SJ 53 NW; 6/14

IGHTFIELD C.P., MORETONWOOD, Pool House

II

Shown on O.S. map as Pool Farm. Farmhouse, now house. Dated 1872, probably by William Eden Nesfield. Timber framed on red brick plinth, with plastered infill and fishscale tile-hung gables. Fishscale tile roof, hipped to north-west. Irregular T-plan. One storey and attic. South-west (entrance) front: chamfered plinth and coved eaves. Roof with lead rolls and globe finials. Brick ridge stack at junction of two ranges to right and brick ridge stack to left at rear. Right-hand gabled wing with 2-:3-:2-light partly- leaded wooden mullioned and transomed window, jettied attic with roll- moulded bressumer and end brackets, attic oriel consisting of 3-light wooden mullioned and transomed window with hipped roof and coved base with shaped end brackets, and jettied gable with a series of small bracket supporting a roll-moulded tie-beam and wall plates with shaped ends. Lower bressumer dated: "JP & AM / 1872". Left-hand range with small 2-light attic casement beneath eaves to right and ground-floor 3-light partly-leaded wooden mullioned and transomed window to left. Boarded door in angle of wing to right with roll-moulded surround and lean-to timber framed porch consisting of polygonal-arched entrance, chamfered arched braces with carved spandrels, and carved bracket supporting wall plate to left. Side benches within. Left-hand gable end: full-height gabled square bay with 1-: 4-:1-light mullioned and transomed ground- floor window, slightly jettied attic storey with roll-moulded bressumer and small brackets, 4-light mullioned and transomed attic window and shaped brackets supporting wall plates. Right-hand return front: pair of ground-floor 3-light wooden mullioned and transomed windows and pair of eaves dormers with 3-light casements and bracketed gables. Rear with recessed centre. Central boarded door with leaded rectangular overlight. Right-hand rear wing possibly enlarged in the later C19. Interior not inspected. Nesfield was the architect of Cloverley Hall (q.v.) nearby, built 1865-70. This farmhouse (and Pool Cottage and The Haven in Moreton Say C.P.) is attributed to him on stylistic grounds. B.o.E., p. 107; Clive Aslet in Country Life, Vol CLXIII (1978) pp. 678- 81 and 766-69.

Listing NGR: SJ6138736372