Pond Hall Farmhouse

Pond Hall Farmhouse is a house that dates back to the 14th or 15th century, with later alterations and additions. It is constructed from timber framing and plaster, topped with red plain tiled roofs. The building features a ridge chimney stack on the left crosswing and an off-centre left stack on the hall. It is designed as a hall house with a crosswing to the left and a later crosswing to the right. There is a 20th-century outshot porch and hall to the right of the left crosswing, along with a stair turret at the rear of this outshot. The roof extends down to the ground floor on the right side of the central hall. The house has two storeys and a window arrangement of one:two:one, featuring 20th-century vari-light leaded casements. At the rear of the left return, there is a single-storey lean-to extension, which has a buttress supporting a parapet that appears to support the attached shaft chimney stack.

Inside, the layout is complex. The left crosswing has halved wall braces, suggesting there may have been an early single-storey building with arched braces to the tie beam, later raised to its current two-storey height. There are arched braces to a steeply cambered tie beam, but the roof above was not visible during the last survey. The inner rear wall of this crosswing features two pairs of incised crossed keys and several roundels, and a two-centred arch was reportedly visible through the plaster before recent repainting. The central hall is open to the ceiling above the modern staircase and includes a four-arm cross quadrant crown post, dating from around 1370 to 1450, resting on a cambered tie beam. The right crosswing and outshot mainly display 18th-century features, except for jowled storey posts and a heavy chamfered bridging joist. The walls of the kitchen, larder, and stairs are lined with 18th-century beaded boards, and there are some 18th-century vertically boarded doors with ironmongery. Details in the rear room are obscured by 20th-century decoration.