Pound Farmhouse And Outbuilding

Pound Farmhouse is a timber-framed farmhouse, dating from the mid to late 17th century with additions from the early 19th century. The front and west flank have been clad in red Flemish-bond brickwork, while the roof is hipped and tiled, featuring a ridgeline stack. The house has two storeys and attics. The front elevation has two hipped dormers and four flush double-hung sash windows on the first floor, each with small panes and moulded surrounds. The ground floor contains three similar windows with segmental-arched heads, and a blocked window opening. A central doorcase has a flat hood, reeded pilasters and architrave, and reeded consoles, sheltering a 20th-century oak door with three flush panels. A sun fire insurance mark is positioned above the door. The east elevation includes two double-hung sash windows with small panes on the first floor, a gabled dormer, a pair of early 19th-century French windows (each of eight panes), and a flat-roofed 20th-century porch/greenhouse.

A parallel rear range, of two storeys and timber-framed and rendered, has two roofs: one hipped and one low-pitched and gabled, both tiled with peg tiles. A tall rear wall stack with pantiled lean-to adjuncts is also present. The west gable features one first-floor double-hung sash with small panes, and one small square double-hung window with small panes on the ground floor.

A small brick and cobbled yard, enclosed by low walls, extends northward and includes an 18th-century outhouse, which is partly timber-framed and partly brick. The outhouse has a gabled roof of machine-made clay plain tiles and a black weatherboarded east end. Inside, it contains a sink, boiler, and oven with a cast-iron door, served by a stack inside the west gable end.

The interior reveals markedly unequal bays of elm timber framing with lamb's tongue stopped chamfers and run-out stops. An off-centre stack bay includes a 20th-century staircase. There are early 19th-century reeded door architraves, a reeded fireplace, and reeded dado rails. Several original doors retain L-hinges. A tunnel is located beneath the stack on the rear.