Pool Farmhouse And Attached Barn

Pool Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse with a barn attached to the rear, with a later 17th-century addition to the left creating an L-shaped plan. The barn itself was altered in the 19th and 20th centuries. The farmhouse is constructed of limestone rubble with stone dressings, brick, and has a double Roman tiled roof with crestings, raised coped verges, a brick ridge, and brick gable stacks. It originally had a two-room, through-passage plan, with a dairy to the right, and later additions forming a T-plan layout.

The main farmhouse has two storeys and two windows on the front. The ground floor has two 2-light casement windows with wooden ovolo mullions and timber lintels on the left side, separated by a straight joint. A door is set within a wooden gabled porch with trellised decoration, and to the right is a 2-light stone window also with ovolo mullions, iron stanchions, and a timber lintel. The first floor has a 2-light casement with a timber lintel to the left, and a similar 2-light stone window under the eaves to the right. A wing projects to the front left; its inner side features a mid-19th-century French window and a 2-light casement under the eaves, while the front of the wing has a wide buttress supporting a stack.

The left return has a 2-light window at ground floor level with a stone ovolo mullion, and another 2-light casement under the eaves. The barn, projecting to the left, has a gable end featuring a garage door and a loading door above, with a stable door to the left. The right return includes a single-storey dairy. It has window openings at ground floor and first floor levels, the upper one a 4-light opening and the lower a 3-light opening, both with square wooden mullions, and are unglazed. A small brick lean-to is also present. The gable end of the main house has a 2-light casement with a stone ovolo mullion; this is partially blocked.

The rear of the farmhouse includes a small, blocked single light in a wooden frame within the dairy wall, a door to the rear of the passage with vertical raised mouldings and a glass insertion in a plain frame, a buttress for a stack, a 2-light window with a stone ovolo mullion, a 20th-century door, and a small fixed light. There's also a single light for the staircase, and a similarly styled 2-light stone window. Two 20th-century 2-light casements with timber lintels are positioned to the right. The barn attached to the rear right has a wide stable door and a lean-to on its inner side, as well as a 2-light casement in its rear gable end.

The dairy’s interior contains a cellar with a cheese trough. The stair door to the rear of the passage mirrors the vertical mouldings of the rear door. The staircase rises along the rear wall directly to the first floor and then winds to the attic level. The interior of the remainder of the house and the barn were not inspected.