Pouncers Farmhouse Including Cob Wall Adjoining To South

Pouncers Farmhouse, which includes a cob wall adjoining to the south, is a small farmhouse dating from the late 16th to early 17th century. It features plastered cob on rubble footings, with the cob exposed on the front up to the first floor level. The stone rubble stacks are topped with 20th-century brick, and the roof is thatched. The main block, facing south, likely follows a 3-room-and-through-passage plan, with the inner room located at the right (east) end. The through passage is now at the left end, indicating that the former service end has been demolished. There is probably a secondary service block at right angles to the rear of the hall and inner room. The building has a rear lateral stack for the hall and a projecting end stack for the inner room. It is two storeys high with an irregular three-window front featuring various late 19th-century casements with glazing bars. There are 19th-century plank doors at either end of the through passage. The roof is gable-ended, while the service wing roof has a hipped end and also includes late 19th-century casements with glazing bars.

Interior inspection was limited at the time of the survey, but although the farmhouse appears mostly modernized in the 19th and 20th centuries, these changes seem superficial, and the late 16th to early 17th-century structure appears intact. The hall has a three-bay ceiling supported by crossbeams with deep soffit chamfers and no stops. The inner room features a soffit-moulded and stopped axial beam. The date of the rear block is unknown. Extending southwards from the right end of the front is a high buttressed plastered cob wall with a tile coping, which runs alongside the front garden.