Pointwell House

Pointwell House is a house dating from around 1700, with alterations made in the 19th century. It is timber framed, plastered, and has a roof covered with handmade red plain tiles. The house has four bays facing south and features an axial stack located one bay from the right end. There is an early 19th-century extension of one bay to the right, and a large mid-19th-century extension at the front of the right half, which includes side stacks. Additionally, there is a 19th-century single-storey wing at the rear of the main stack, constructed of red brick in Flemish bond and roofed with slate. The rear of the main range has two 20th-century small two-storey extensions with flat roofs.

The house is two storeys high. The front extension features two full-height splayed bays, each containing three sash windows on each floor, with marginal lights. There is a flush six-panel door with a plain overlight in a doorcase that has fluted jambs and a moulded flat canopy. The exterior includes ashlar plaster, a dentilled and moulded cornice, and a plain parapet. The main range has two 19th-century casement windows on each storey, with additional 19th-century casements at the rear. The interior features axial beams with vertical sections and asymmetrical chamfers, along with plain joists of vertical section and primary straight bracing in the walls. There are two large wood-burning hearths made of 0.23 metre brickwork, one of which is blocked. One first-floor room has a ceiling made of tongued and grooved softwood boards from around 1900. The staircase is of high-quality workmanship from a similar period, featuring carved newels, slender barley-sugar balusters, and a moulded handrail, possibly from the Coggeshall school. The main range has a clasped purlin roof that incorporates some smoke-blackened medieval rafters, while the roof of the front extension is made of hand-sawn softwood. Deeds from around 1720 are in the possession of the owner, and the house is shown on a map from 1732 in the Essex Record Office.