Pound Farmhouse And Outbuilding

HARWICH

TM2431 MAIN ROAD, Dovercourt 609-1/6/188 (North side) 30/06/64 Pound Farmhouse and outbuilding

GV II

Farmhouse. Mid to late C17 and early C19. Timber-framed and plastered and encased on front and W flank in red Flemish-bond brickwork. Hipped clay plain tile roof with small off-centre ridgeline stack. 2 storeys with attics. EXTERIOR: front has 2 hipped dormers with 6-pane double-hung sash windows. Moulded brick coved eaves and, on first floor, 4 flush double-hung sash windows with small panes and moulded surrounds. Ground floor has 3 similar windows with segmental-arched heads and a blocked window opening. Central doorcase has flat hood, reeded pilasters and architrave and reeded consoles. The C20 oak door is slightly recessed with 3 flush panels on flanks. Sun fire insurance mark over door. East elevation has 2 double-hung sash windows with small panes on first floor, a gabled dormer, pair of early C19 French windows each of 8 panes and flat-roofed C20 porch/greenhouse. Parallel rear range, 2 storeys and timber-framed and rendered with 2 roofs, one hipped and one low pitched and gabled, both of peg tiles. Tall rear wall stack with pantiled lean-to adjuncts. The W gable has one first floor double-hung sash with small panes and one small square double-hung window, with small panes on ground floor. A small yard, paved with bricks and cobbles and enclosed by low walls extends to north and is bounded by an C18 part timber-framed, part brick outhouse with gabled machine-made clay plain tile roof. This has black weatherboarded east end and contains sink, boiler and oven with cast-iron door served by stack inside west gable end. INTERIOR: 2 markedly unequal bays of elm timber-framing with lamb's tongue stopped chamfers. Off-centre stack bay with C20 staircase. Early C19 reeded door architraves, reeded fireplace and reeded dado rails. A number of old doors with L-hinges. Stack on rear has tunnel under. (RCHME: Essex NE: London: 1922-: 86 (3)).

Listing NGR: TM2402631140