Pomeroy House

House. Built around the late 17th century and remodelled in the early 19th century. The house is constructed of colourwashed rendered cob and stone with a thatched roof, plain at the ridge and hipped at the ends, and has end stacks, including a lateral stack to the dining room block and an end stack to the north wing. The house follows an approximate U-shaped plan, comprising a single-depth, south-facing main range with two rooms and a central passage, providing access to a rear staircase, and rear wings at right angles. The west wing has been rebuilt, possibly replacing an earlier kitchen wing. Around the early 19th century, a dining room wing was added to the east side, and the house was refurbished and refenestrated. A 20th-century alteration included the demolition and rebuilding of the west wing as a single-story block.

The two-story front elevation is tall and symmetrical, with five bays, deep eaves supported by paired brackets. A central porch features Roman Doric columns and a cornice with a dentil moulding, sheltering a 19th-century panelled door with panelled reveals. There are four ground-floor and three first-floor early 19th-century 12-pane sash windows. A 19th-century lean-to conservatory with small panes and pointed arched lights is located on the right (east) side. The dining room wing's return elevation incorporates a two-story canted bay window facing east with three over six-pane sashes to the first floor and 12-pane sashes on the ground floor. Windows on other elevations are mostly small-pane casements. The rear elevation features a 12-pane sash window illuminating the stairwell and a roof dormer.

Inside, the front ground-floor rooms have plastered crossbeams flanked by narrow bands of what is likely late 18th-century decorative plaster. These rooms also have decorative plaster cornices and marble chimney-pieces, with the right-hand room's chimney-piece being a later replacement and the left-hand one retaining its original grate. The 19th-century joinery includes a staircase with an open string, turned balusters, and a ramped mahogany handrail. The dining room features a good plaster cornice and a chimney-piece that is probably reused. Original joinery and several original fireplaces and grates remain on the first floor. The roof was not inspected.

It is said that Pomeroy House was built for two unmarried sisters of the Putt family of Combe. The combination of thatched roofing with early 19th-century detailing is an unusual survival. The building has group value with associated garden buildings and a barn located to the rear (north).