Poole Cottage

Poole Cottage is a house dating from the early to mid 17th century, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. The house is constructed of rendered rubble and cob walls, with a thatched roof to the left-hand side, hipped at one end, and a wooden shingle roof to the right-hand side, gabled at its end. It features a rendered brick axial stack, and a projecting rendered rubble stack at the right-hand gable end, with a brick shaft. The original plan was of a three-room-and-through-passage form. The lower end of the house, on the left, has likely been rebuilt in the 20th century, while the inner room has had its eaves raised and its front wall built out, and has probably been extended at the higher end. A hall stack backs onto the passage, and the inner room is heated by the gable-end stack. A 19th-century rear outshut has also been added. The exterior presents a long, asymmetrical front with a 1:2:2 window arrangement across three distinct parts. The recessed left-hand section has 20th-century 2-light casement windows on each floor, and a late 20th-century aluminium-framed window to the left on the ground floor. A 20th-century glazed door is located to the right, sheltered by a slate pentice. The central section has 1- and 2-light 20th-century casements. The projecting right-hand section has higher eaves, and mid-20th-century 2- and 3-light metal-frame casements and a glazed door to the left, sheltered by a slate hood. The interior was inaccessible at the time of survey.