Pountney Hall

Pountney Hall is a house dating from the late 16th or early 17th century, originally built for the Clarke family. It was reduced in size and altered around 1810. The house is timber-framed with clay lump additions, with plastered walls and steeply pitched plain tiled roofs. It was once a larger, half-H shaped house, and the remaining three-cell block was probably originally a service range.

The two-storey house with attics has a front elevation featuring a raised panelled and partly glazed door to the right of centre, with a hooded architrave. Flanking the door are early 19th-century, three-light glazing bar casements with cusped Gothic heads. The first floor also has three-light glazing bar casements. Boxed eaves are present. A stack has been inserted into the front roof slope. The right gable end has an extruded stack with projecting brick bands, exposed plates and double purlins. Similar three and four-light casements with Gothic heads and hood moulds are visible on the left gable end.

The rear elevation has a raised panelled architraved door, flanked by three-light glazing bar casements, and two-light casements on the first floor to the left. To the rear right is an early dairy bay with a separate parallel roof, featuring two-light casements, brackets to exposed plates, single purlins, and raised eaves.

Attached to the right of the main range and the dairy bay are two parallel 19th-century clay lump service outshuts with lower parallel roofs, double doors, a three-light casement and a gable end pentice board. Interior details are not documented.