Pond House

Pond House is an early 19th-century house located on Seven Arches Road in Brentwood. It is built of red brick in Flemish bond and has a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The house has a rectangular plan facing east, with a chimney stack on each gable wall and an original catslide roof at the rear, which also features a stack at the left end. To the left, there is a 20th-century conservatory.

The front of the house has two ground-floor sash windows, each with 2+2 lights in their original openings, topped with flat arches made of gauged brick. The first floor has two similar sash windows without flat arches. The central door features four boarded flush panels and three fretted lights at the top, with a moulded flat canopy supported by profiled brackets. The elevation is symmetrical and includes a modillioned eaves cornice. A brick to the left of the front door is inscribed with "Wm. - 1823," suggesting it may refer to William Stone, although the initial is missing. Each gable end has a line of black headers that follows the pitch of the roof, both at the front and the rear. The brickwork was re-pointed with lime mortar around 1986.

Inside, each ground-floor front room has a chamfered axial beam made of pine. The front windows on the ground floor are fitted with double sash shutters, which are rare. The left room features a plain white marble fireplace, while the right room has a fireplace made of black and green marble with a Victorian cast-iron grate. The original staircase remains, though some stick balusters are missing from the lower flight. All internal doors are four-panel, except for a pair of three-panel pine doors at the rear of the first-floor right front room, which has a draw-bar and formerly overlooked a lower room that is now a corridor, making it a rare feature.