Pound Farm

FLAMSTEAD TROWLEY HILL ROAD TL 0714 (West side) 9/60 No. 30 (Pound Farm) - GV II

Farmhouse, now a private house. C17 or earlier, brick casing C17 and C18, S wing late C18. Timber frame in N range and S stable encased in red brick, narrow C17 brick in English bond to stable and lower part of S wall, Flemish-bond elsewhere. Dark weatherboarded W gable and W kitchen, roughcast S gable. Steep old red tile roofs, hip at NE corner. An L-shaped house of 2-storeys and dis-used attics, now entered from E. Long N range formerly entered from S has a single-storey kitchen extension at W beyond an external gable chimney, internal chimney to middle, E end of roof altered when S parlour wing added on road front with lateral chimney. This probably replaced a service wing linking to single-storey stable. E front has 4 windows to both floors irregularly placed and 4-panels flush-beaded door into E end of N range under a gabled tiled open timber porch. 2-light casements to 1st floor, 3-lights to ground floor with segmental arches. Projecting front wall chimney between windows of S wing. 2-light casement windows to N range without arches or face lintels. Brick curbed well outside in angle of wings. Interior has C18 2-panels doors generally, exposed bay-posts in N wall of N range and mortices in tie-beams for braces formerly springing from posts in S wall. Jowled posts, clasped-purlin roof on queen-strut with collar trusses. Stair rises beside internal chimney. Complex truss in N wing to get over junction of wallplates at different heights. Clasped-purlin roof with straight inclined queen-posts in stable.

Listing NGR: TL0783214497