Pool House

Pool House, originally Pool Farm, is a farmhouse, now a house, dating to 1872 and likely designed by William Eden Nesfield. It is timber-framed with a red brick plinth, plastered infill panels, and fishscale tile-hung gables, topped with a fishscale tile roof, hipped to the north-west. The building has an irregular T-plan, arranged over one storey and an attic.

The south-west front (the main entrance front) features a chamfered plinth and coved eaves. The roof has lead rolls and globe finials. Two brick ridge stacks are present, one at the junction of two ranges to the right, and another to the left at the rear. The right-hand gabled wing has a 2-light, 3-light, and 2-light wooden mullioned and transomed window with partially-leaded glass. A jettied attic projects above, with a roll-moulded bressumer and end brackets. An attic oriel window consists of a 3-light wooden mullioned and transomed window with a hipped roof and a coved base with shaped end brackets. Beneath, a jettied gable features a series of small brackets supporting a roll-moulded tie-beam and wall plates with shaped ends. The lower bressumer is dated "JP & AM / 1872". The left-hand range has a small 2-light attic casement beneath the eaves to the right, and a ground-floor 3-light wooden mullioned and transomed window to the left. A boarded door is set in the angle of the wing to the right, with a roll-moulded surround. A lean-to timber-framed porch has a polygonal-arched entrance, chamfered arched braces with carved spandrels, and a carved bracket supporting a wall plate to the left, with side benches within.

The left-hand gable end has a full-height gabled square bay with a 1-light, 4-light, and 1-light mullioned and transomed ground-floor window. A slightly jettied attic storey has a roll-moulded bressumer and small brackets, surmounted by a 4-light mullioned and transomed attic window and shaped brackets supporting wall plates. The right-hand return front has a pair of ground-floor 3-light wooden mullioned and transomed windows and a pair of eaves dormers with 3-light casements and bracketed gables. The rear elevation has a recessed centre, and a central boarded door with a leaded rectangular overlight. The right-hand rear wing may have been enlarged in the later 19th century. The interior was not inspected.

Nesfield was the architect of Cloverley Hall, built between 1865 and 1870. Pool House, along with Pool Cottage and The Haven in Moreton Say, is attributed to him on stylistic grounds. The building is described in the Buildings of England series and in Country Life magazine. It features stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops.