Old Pound Cottage The Cottage

A house, divided into two cottages, dating from the early 17th century, with possible rebuilding of the lower end in the mid 17th century. The house is constructed of stone rubble, rendered on the left-hand side ("The Cottage"), and has an asbestos slate roof with a gabled end on the left and a hipped end on the right. There are two front lateral stacks built of rendered stone rubble with brick shafts. The house has a two-room and through-passage plan; the lower end was possibly partly rebuilt in the mid 17th century. A wide through passage runs centrally, with a stair turret at the rear of the hall. The front has lateral hall and kitchen stacks. A later rear outshut at the lower end contains a dairy, and a 20th-century extension is attached to the rear of the hall.

The front elevation is asymmetrical, with three windows. On the ground floor, a 20th-century three-light casement with glazing bars is located on the left. A small rectangular window adjoins a fireplace with a rendered granite surround. An early 20th-century plank door with a glazed light and a sloping hood sits centrally. To the right is a projecting clom oven with a slate hood. A two-light casement with glazing bars is positioned to the right, with a dressed stone segmental arch above. The second storey has two 20th-century windows and a two-light casement to the right, beneath a renewed timber lintel. The right-hand hipped end of Old Pound Cottage features a small, narrow rectangular light with a stone surround and thick early glass. A rear door to the through passage has a chamfered timber lintel.

Inside, the through passage is wide, with heavy ceiling beams. The partition between the passage and hall was probably a timber screen, now covered, and there is a chamfered bressumer above. The hall has a granite fireplace with chamfered jambs and lintel. The ceiling beams replaced a stone winder stair in a projection to the rear, with the stair incorporated into a later extension.

The interior of Old Pound Cottage has heavy, chamfered ceiling beams, some with run-out stops. A timber lintel to the former kitchen fireplace is also chamfered with run-out stops. There are clom ovens. An opening to the through passage is now blocked, with a chamfered and stopped timber lintel above. Roof timbers date to the mid 18th century.