Old Pound House

TL 21 NE 3/39

DATCHWORTH HOLLYBUSH LANE (North side) Datchworth No. 20 (Old Pound House)

II

House. C16 origins. Remodelled early to mid C17. Extended and altered C19 and C20. Timber frame to core, pargetted rendering and tile hanging. Whitewashed and rendered brick additions. Tiled roofs. Originally probably 3 bays, made a lobby entry with a short wing to rear centre, later gabled additions to rear and to right. 2 storeys. Garden elevation, early bays all tile hung with renewed brick base. Ground floor French doors and C20 canted bay window, first floor scattered lattice casements. C17 central axial ridge stack, multiform and part rebuilt with an oversailing cap. A C19 bay added to right has a ground floor lean-to outshut with an entrance in right return. Left gable end exposed plates. C19 right gable end has mixed casements, cambered head on first floor. To rear, right bay and projecting gabled wing to centre have 2 light flush frame leaded casements. Projecting further from left bay is a C19 double gabled block, rendered with similar casements. Attached to right end from garden is a 1 storey range linking to former octagonal well house. Interior: exposed framing with curved passing tension braces in walling, unusual scarf joint on first floor, posts moulded on ground floor and jowled above, cambered tie beams, clasped purlin roof, windbraces. Ovolo moulded stop chamfered axial binding beams, stop chamfered timber fireplace lintels, some reset C17 panelling. (T.O. Beachcroft and W.B. Emms, Five Hide Village, 1984: RCHM Typescript).

Listing NGR: TL2655219270