The Pound

This is a house, probably dating from the late 18th century, with extensions added in the mid-19th century and later alterations. Originally divided into two dwellings, it has now been returned to a single residence. Constructed of roughly coursed limestone rubble, the roof is covered in stone slates. The building has a roughly L-shaped layout, consisting of a three-bay main range with a smaller, twin-gabled range set at a right angle to the rear on the left side. The main range was extended to the right in the 19th century. The house is two storeys and has an attic. The upper floor has four early 20th-century casement windows in earlier segmental-headed openings; the ground floor has three, with one window positioned to either side of a 20th-century gabled stone porch on the left and one to the right of a 20th-century glazed front door. A gabled dormer window is visible in the roof slope to the left of the centre. A boarded front door with a glazed panel is located under the gabled porch, and the outline of a former steep-pitched gabled porch is visible above the glazed door. Interior spaces feature chamfered ceiling beams on the ground and first floors. In the left first-floor room, a hearthstone from an infilled fireplace is visible in the ceiling of the ground-floor room below. The end stacks are integral; the one on the right was rebuilt in the 20th century using brown brick, while the one on the left has been rebuilt to the top but retains its dripstones. A brown brick ridge stack marks the junction between the 18th and 19th-century sections of the building.