Pound Farmhouse

Pound Farmhouse is a house dating back to approximately 1590, with extensions added in the 17th, 18th, and 20th centuries. It is timber-framed with plaster rendering and a roof covered in handmade red plain tiles. The house originally comprised four bays facing southeast, featuring an external stack at the left end and an axial stack in the second bay from the right, creating a lobby entrance. A 17th-century wing is situated behind the internal stack, with an 18th-century closet extension forming the rear right angle. A 20th-century extension has been added to the right of the main range, producing a symmetrical front elevation. The house originally had attics, now disused, and has two main stories. The front features a four-window range of 20th-century casements, with a 20th-century gabled porch covering the front door.

Inside, the house displays numerous historic features. The right ground-floor room contains a wood-burning hearth with chamfered jambs and a depressed arch, revealing brickwork repair; it also has a chamfered axial beam, joined in two places, with early “lamb's tongue” stops and forelocks at the left end and a modern replacement at the right. The middle ground-floor room has a brick wood-burning hearth, a replaced mantel beam, and an original seat recess. It features a chamfered axial beam with lamb's tongue stops and vertical section joists. An original window with ovolo-moulded jambs and a mullion, along with another similar window with a missing mullion, are present, both blocked externally. The left ground-floor room contains a wood-burning hearth with a blocked aperture indicating a former bread oven, exhibiting a chamfered axial beam with step stops at one end, thought to be a reused beam. The right first-floor room has two original windows with moulded jambs and mullions, differing from the ground floor windows as they are ovolo section with concave glazing fillets, and are currently blocked externally. It also has a hearth with chamfered jambs and a four-centered arch, retaining original plaster. The middle first-floor room has a wood-burning hearth with narrow jambs and rear stack repairs. The left first-floor room contains an unglazed window with two diamond mullions in the rear wall. The roof is a clasped purlin design with shallow arched wind-bracing, and a blocked external window in the right gable, displaying mortices for a diamond mullion. Sections of original wattle and daub are visible in an internal wall. There is evidence the house originally featured two oriel windows on each floor, each incorporating small side windows, although only four of these small windows remain, and evidence of the original oriel sills. The house has undergone significant repair and renovation between 1982 and 1986. The rear wing showcases primary straight bracing with substantial studding, while the closet extension has thinner bracing and studding.