Pound Farm

Pound Farm is a farmhouse that has been converted into a private house. It dates from the 17th century or earlier, with brick casing added in the 17th and 18th centuries, and a south wing constructed in the late 18th century. The northern range and southern stable are timber framed and encased in red brick, featuring narrow 17th-century brickwork in English bond on the stable and the lower part of the south wall, while the rest is in Flemish bond. The farmhouse has a dark weatherboarded west gable and a roughcast south gable, topped with steep old red tile roofs, which are hipped at the northeast corner.

The L-shaped building has two storeys and disused attics, with the main entrance now located on the east side. The long northern range, which was originally accessed from the south, includes a single-storey kitchen extension on the west side, beyond an external gable chimney. There is an internal chimney in the middle of the eastern end, and the roof was altered when the south parlour wing was added to the road front, which features a lateral chimney. The east front has four irregularly placed windows on both floors and a four-panel flush-beaded door at the eastern end of the northern range, sheltered by a gabled tiled open timber porch. The first floor has two-light casement windows, while the ground floor features three-light windows with segmental arches. A projecting front wall chimney is located between the windows of the south wing, and the northern range has two-light casement windows without arches or face lintels. There is a brick-curbed well situated outside at the angle of the wings.

Inside, the farmhouse generally has 18th-century two-panel doors, exposed bay-posts in the northern wall of the northern range, and mortices in the tie-beams for braces that once sprang from posts in the southern wall. The roof structure includes jowled posts and a clasped-purlin roof supported by queen-struts with collar trusses. The staircase rises beside the internal chimney, and a complex truss in the northern wing accommodates the junction of wall plates at different heights. The stable features a clasped-purlin roof with straight inclined queen-posts.