Polebarn House With Brick Boundary Wall, Gatepiers And Gates

Polebarn House, built in 1789 by the Reverend John Clark, is a significant two-storey building with an attic and basement, located on Polebarn Road. The house features an entrance front made of ashlar stone set on a projecting plinth with a moulded capping. It has chamfered bonded quoins and Corinthian pilasters with carved caps that flank the central bay, extending the full height of the building. The structure is topped with an old tile roof and has three segmental-headed dormers. The windows are glazing bar sash types, with a central Venetian window on the first floor and pairs of flanking two-storey three-light bays, each adorned with a moulded string over the windows.

The main entrance consists of an eight-panel door set within a stone architrave, sheltered by an Ionic stone porch supported by two columns, with wall pilasters, an entablature featuring a pulvinated frieze, a modillion cornice, and a pediment. This entrance is approached by a wide flight of six stone steps that return at the sides. There are basement lights beneath the flanking bays.

The property is enclosed by a brick boundary wall, which has a curved shape and weathered capping. The entrance features small square stone gate piers topped with wrought iron gates that have square rails, acorn tops, spearhead dog rails, a cross band of circles, and an inverted curved top rail with acanthus ornamentation. The return to Roundstone Street maintains the general design, with two windows and three blind panels.

At the rear, the building has brick walls with stone dressings and a small porch. The southeast front, which once faced large ornamental grounds, is also constructed of brick with stone dressings and includes a central first-floor sundial, four windows, and a fine doorway with cut brackets supporting a moulded flat hood and a traceried rectangular fanlight. The house was formerly topped with a cupola. Notably, the Reverend Clark's organ from this house is now housed in the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Polebarn House, along with its boundary wall, gatepiers, and gates, is part of a group that includes Nos 2 to 4 (consecutive), No 5 (Rodney House) with stable and garden railings, Stable Buildings and Walls, Nos 8 to 13 (consecutive) on Roundstone Street, and Nos 1 to 6 (consecutive) of the Yerbury Almshouses on Yerbury Street.