Pool Farmhouse

Pool Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 17th century and later. It is constructed of painted rubble with a thatched roof and brick stacks. The building features a cross passage with a stair turret and has two storeys with four bays. The ground floor includes a 2-light, a 3-light, and a 5-light casement, all with ovolo moulded timber frames. The central door consists of six tall panels with thin stiles and a central rail. A gabled porch with pantiles and an ornamental bargeboard is supported by a pair of fluted square columns and has a rudimentary cornice; the returns are filled with high back benches. On the first floor, there is one 5-light and two 3-light casements, along with a larger 19th-century casement in the later west bay. The thatch was renewed in 1981. At the rear, the cross passage is obscured by a 19th-century single-storey pantiled offshoot, which has a casement lacking a mullion above. The middle bay, where the eaves rise, features a 3-light moulded casement below and a 19th-century replacement above. In the circular stair turret under the low eaves, there is a small 2-light casement and a small fixed glazed moulded stone light with tracery, which may have been reset. Internally, the farmhouse has deep chamfered beams.