Pool Anthony Farmhouse

Pool Anthony Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 16th century, which was remodeled in the mid to late 19th century. It is constructed of rendered rubble and possibly cob, topped with dry slate roofs featuring four gabled dormers on the front and projecting eaves. The building has three rear lateral brick stacks and an axial brick stack towards the right.

The layout consists of a long four-room plan with a screens passage separating a large lower end on the left from a hall on the right, both of which have rear lateral fireplaces. The room to the right of the hall has a fireplace in the cross wall, while the far right-hand room also features a rear lateral fireplace. The 19th-century extensions include servants' quarters positioned at right angles in front of the lower end, a stair wing at the rear of the hall, and a pantry lean-to at the back of the lower end.

The exterior is two storeys high and has a four-window range to the right of the passage. Early 20th-century four-pane horned sash windows have replaced most of the mid to late 19th-century 16-pane two-light casement windows, although one of the latter survives on the ground floor to the left, as well as in the servants' wing and one at the rear. A fire insurance plaque is located above the doorway on the left, which features a planked door within an 18th-century frame and an open verandah in front. There is also a trellised porch with an elliptically-arched doorway in front of another doorway towards the right, which has partly glazed doors with margin panes.

Inside, the farmhouse boasts fine muntin and plank screens with diagonal stops and shouldered arched doorways. There is an opening in the screen, mostly blocked later, to the left of the hall doorway. The hall ceiling features intersecting chamfered beams with tongue stops. The lower end has a similar crossbeam to the right of the fireplace and a later beam with similar but smaller details to the left of the fireplace, which also has an oven behind the left-hand jamb. A straight-flight staircase is located to the right of the fireplace. The roof structure is a 19th-century scissor-truss design, except for one original jointed cruck that is partly visible in the lower end near the junction with the servants' quarters.

The later 19th-century external appearance of Pool Anthony Farmhouse does not fully convey the significant historical interest of the original house within.