Mascalls Pound

House. Dating from the mid to late 17th century, Mascalls Pound is a framed building with notable construction details. The front elevation has a brick ground floor laid in Flemish bond, while the first floor is tile-hung. The roof is covered in peg tiles, and brick stacks are present.

The house faces east, slightly set back from the road. It follows a two-room lobby entrance plan, featuring back-to-back fireplaces and an axial stack. A rear wing, added in the late 17th century and originally unheated, extends to the northwest. A rear outshut to the left may be contemporary with the main block or slightly later, and includes a stack with a lintel dated 1684.

The two-storey front elevation is symmetrical with three bays and a half-hipped roof. A band of brick corbelling runs along the first floor. A central 18th-century front door has fielded panels, protected by a gabled porch hood supported on shaped brackets. Late 17th/early 18th-century iron-framed casement windows with square leaded panes and decorative window furniture are present, along with a two-light window above the front door. The rear right wing has a hip roof with a moulded fascia under the eaves. Later 20th-century additions include a stack on the north side of the wing, a French window in the west end, and a bay window. The rear centre wing likely represents a 19th-century alteration to the outshut. Various 20th-century windows are present, including a large hipped roof dormer on the outshut.

Inside, the left-hand room of the main range retains exposed cross and axial beams and joists. An open fireplace features brick jambs, an oak lintel, and a unique iron mechanism for suspending a cooking pot over the fire, incorporating a pivot and ratchet for height adjustment. The right-hand room has a single exposed axial beam. The outshut fireplace has an oak lintel dated 1684 and previously contained a bread oven. A 17th-century plank door leads to a cellar with a floor of large bricks. The ground floor of the rear wing has a crossbeam with short curved braces from the wallposts. Exposed ceiling carpentry is visible in the first-floor rooms. The rear wall framing remains to sole plate level, with wallposts displaying formed jowls.

The roof is of a clasped purlin design, extending over both the main range and rear wing.