Pool House

House. The main part of Pool House dates to the 17th century, and was significantly refronted around 1760, with further additions in the 18th and 19th centuries. The front of the house is built of red sandstone ashlar with a slate double-pitched roof, while the rear is of red brick with a hipped, tiled roof. The main block is two rooms deep, with a central doorway and end stacks. A rear extension projects to the right and has a central stack. The front facade is in a Gothick style, with gables springing from a heavily moulded cornice. There are three bays, each with an ogee-shaped gable, painted stone coping, and pagoda-shaped finials. Quatrefoil roundels with an octofoil glazing pattern are set into the gables. The gables are linked by a parapet and feature further corner finials. The central bay has an ogee-headed window, and the outer bays have ogee-headed dentre lights to Gothick Venetian windows, all with decorative finials. Sash windows with Gothick-style glazing are in all openings. The central partly glazed door has a Gothick fanlight, an ogee architrave with poppyhead detailing and a stepped label above; stone steps flank the door, with wrought iron railings. The right-hand return has two shaped gables with stone mullioned windows and two stone cross-mullioned windows with gables on the first floor, with traces of another window on the ground floor. The left-hand return is similar, with raised verges and renewed mullioned windows, alongside a 20th-century conservatory with an ogee-shaped roof. Large stacks to both ends have three star-plan shafts, partly rebuilt. An early 18th-century brick range with a hipped roof, incorporating a central stairwell light, projects to the right. The elevation to the right has wooden cross casement windows with cambered heads, a hipped central dormer, and a central six-panelled door with stone steps leading up. Inside, a fine mid-17th-century oak-framed newel staircase, with twisted balusters intact, runs from the first floor to the attic towards the rear of the main range. The front rooms feature fine late 18th-century stucco ornamentation. The entrance hall has a Gothick cornice, a Batty-Langley style marble fireplace, and a later screen of two quatrefoil plain piers leading to a mahogany staircase at the rear. An adjoining room to the west has standard late 18th-century plasterwork and a fireplace which suggests the whole remodelling may be of that period, reflecting a late use of pattern books.