9 And 10, Pound Lane

This is a probably early 17th-century house, later altered in the early 19th century and 20th century, and now divided into two properties, number 9 being an office. The building is timber-framed and clad in painted brick in a Flemish bond pattern. It has a plain tile roof. The structure is two storeys tall with an attic and basement, featuring two framed bays and four first-floor windows. A rear range was added and the main house was bricked and converted into two properties in the early 19th century.

Each property has a front door on the right. Number 10’s door is of six flush panels, the top two being glazed, set within a panelled surround and wooden architrave featuring fluted pilasters, an entablature, a bracketed canopy. Number 9’s door is 20th century, with part-glazing in a similar style, incorporating applied flowers above the pilasters. Number 10 has a wide ground-floor window with a cambered brick arch, projecting sill and a tripartite sash window, comprising glazing bars flanked by four-pane sashes. Number 9 has an 18-pane shop window in a wooden surround. The first floor has four unequally-hung 12-pane sashes, breaking into stepped dentilled eaves. The roof is half-hipped at the left end, with a 19th-century dormer to number 9, a 19th-century external stack projecting forward of the ridge at the left end, and another stack projecting forward of the ridge in the centre.

Inside, both houses have exposed square-panelled timber framing including jowled wall posts and large scantling arched braces. There are large scantling chamfered spine-beams with stepped stops on the ground floor and lambs tongue stops on the first floor. Number 10 has square-sectioned floor joists and old floor boards to the first floor. Each house has a dog-leg, closed-string staircase with stick balusters, columnar newels and swept handrails. The upper flight of number 9’s staircase has been replaced, while number 10 has an old board door with strap hinges to a cupboard under the stair. A cellar accessible from number 9 contains a rubblestone rear wall and a central, large-scantling, chamfered spine-beam.