Pool Cottage

Pool Cottage is a cottage with an attached outbuilding, dating from the mid to late 17th century, with extensions and alterations in the early to mid-19th century and again in the mid to late 19th century. The cottage is constructed of mixed uncoursed rubble, likely replacing a timber frame in the 17th-century portion, with red brick dressings and some rebuilt sections in yellow engineering brick to the rear. The roof is corrugated iron. The original design was a single-cell, baffle-entry plan with a byre attached to the right. The cottage was extended to the left in the early 19th century, raising the eaves. The byre was raised and converted into domestic use, with a single-bay cow house added to the right later in the 19th century.

The original part has a red brick dentilated eaves cornice, while the early 19th-century addition and raised byre/cow house have yellow engineering brick dentilated eaves cornices. Four 19th-century casement windows are located directly below the eaves of the original section. Segmental-headed windows are on the ground floor, with two between the centre of the cottage and the right doorway and one to the right of the right doorway. A narrow rectangular opening is on the ground floor of the cow house, which also has a segmental-headed doorway and window above it on the gable end. All doorways are segmental headed, including the one on the far left, with boarded doors. Red brick ridge stacks are located on the left, over a smoke hood, and at the left gable end. A yellow engineering brick ridge stack is at the junction between the converted byre and the 19th-century cow house.

The interior of the 17th-century section includes a timber-framed smoke hood with red brick infill. An elaborately moulded wooden lintel extends over the doorway, with an earlier, presumably reused section embedded in the wall. The original right gable end has a timber-framed wall with square and rectangular panels from the cill to the tie beam. A chamfered spine beam with run-out stops is present, alongside chamfered joists with straight-cut stops. The floor is brick. A long room in the converted byre also features a brick floor and a brick fireplace with a segmental arch, and flat joists. The early 19th-century addition to the left of the 17th-century part has a segmental arch to an external bread oven, and the first floor has been removed. A ladder staircase cuts through the timber frame of the original left gable end, suggesting it is a later addition, and that the original staircase was likely situated behind the smoke hood, facing the opposite direction. The roof was entirely rebuilt, except for the original principal rafter visible below the raised eaves to the left of the smoke hood.