Old Pound House

Old Pound House is a house with origins dating back to the 16th century, which was remodeled in the early to mid 17th century. It has been extended and altered in the 19th and 20th centuries. The core of the house is timber-framed, featuring pargetted rendering and tile hanging, with whitewashed and rendered brick additions and tiled roofs. Originally, the house likely consisted of three bays and included a lobby entry with a short wing at the rear center. Later, gabled additions were made to the rear and to the right.

The house is two storeys high. The garden elevation shows the early bays all tile-hung with a renewed brick base. The ground floor features French doors and a 20th-century canted bay window, while the first floor has scattered lattice casements. A central axial ridge stack from the 17th century is multiform and partly rebuilt, topped with an oversailing cap. To the right, a 19th-century bay has a ground floor lean-to outshut with an entrance on the right return. The left gable end reveals exposed plates, and the right gable end has mixed casements with a cambered head on the first floor.

At the rear, the right bay and the projecting gabled wing at the center have two-light flush frame leaded casements. Further projecting from the left bay is a 19th-century double-gabled block, rendered and featuring similar casements. Attached to the right end from the garden is a single-storey range that links to a former octagonal well house.

Inside, the house displays exposed framing with curved passing tension braces in the walls, an unusual scarf joint on the first floor, and posts that are moulded on the ground floor and jowled above. It also features cambered tie beams, a clasped purlin roof with windbraces, ovolo moulded stop-chamfered axial binding beams, stop-chamfered timber fireplace lintels, and some reset 17th-century panelling.