Pound Cottage

WOOTTON WAWEN

SP16SE ALCESTER ROAD 1457-1/5/137 (South side) 02/08/72 Pound Cottage

GV II

Probably house with cart shed, now house. c1700 with possibly earlier range to east and later additions and alterations including C20 porch. Timber-framing with painted brick nogging and renewed tile roof. Regular small square panels of timber-frame using small timbers (many reused), with angle braces. EXTERIOR: single-storey with attic, 4-window range with 2 attic dormers. Entrance to off-centre C20 porch has plank door. 2- and 3-light mainly metal casement windows throughout, some with lead cames. To right of porch is evidence of a former cart opening to front and rear walls. 2 roof dormers have metal casement windows with external latches. INTERIOR: has extensive timber-framing to rear and partition walls. Spine beam with chamfers and end stops. Some early board doors. Inglenook fireplace to centre room has reused beam (said to have replaced worn original beam) and pine cupboards to either side. The Wootton Wawen Report concluded that Pound Cottage had been constructed for agricultural use due to broad and lofty openings (now infilled) for hay wagons. However, extensive interior framing and finished beams to ground-floor ceilings suggest domestic use, if not in entirety at first, then shortly afterwards. Forms a group with The Bull's Head Inn, Alcester Road (qv) and Hawthornes, Stratford Road (qv). (The Wootton Wawen Project: Bassett S: Interim Report: University of Birmingham: 1983-1989: 17).

Listing NGR: SP1513863209