Pound Living

CLYST ST GEORGE EXMOUTH ROAD SX 98 NE 2/11 Pound Living -

• II

Detached house, formerly a farmhouse. Mid C17, with early-C18 alterations and additions. Roughcast cob on stone footings; gabled-end asphalted slate roof. Originally a 2-room, central through-passage plan house, with a later wing added to the rear of the right-hand room. Both rooms are heated by internal end stacks, and the newal stair-turret stands to the rear of the left-hand room. 2 storeys. Front: 4-window range; one 2-light and three 3-light casement windows to first floor, their lintels at eaves level; 3-light casement window to either side of simple porch with a panelled front door. C20 casement windows to right-hand elevation. Brick leanto at rear, with one 2-light casement window above. Interior: right-hand room with end fireplace, chamfered lintel with step stops; one deeply chamfered cross ceiling beam with eroded stops, and a half-beam above fireplace with run-out stops. The partition between this room and the passage runs up through both storeys. Left-hand room with chamfered cross ceiling beam, with ovolo moulding and unstopped; early-C18 panelled doors, including one with good fielded panels, now set in the rear leanto, but originally to the rear of the passage. First floor with early panelled doors, including double-doors to cupboard, with shouldered fielded panels, drawers below, and a cyma recta cornice, and perhaps late C17 or very early C18. One planked door with H L hinges. Roof (roofspace not accessible) : 2 jointed crucks, with big straight upper blades.

Listing NGR: SX9795489456