Pool House is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 October 1987. Detached house.
Pool House
- WRENN ID
- quartered-keep-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 October 1987
- Type
- Detached house
- Address
- Pool House, Birdlip Village
- OS grid reference
- SO 928 143
- Coordinates
- 51.82738, -2.10573
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Pool House is a detached house dating from the mid to late 17th century. It features an ashlar main body with a limestone rubble extension and a stone slate roof, complemented by ashlar and brick stacks. The main structure is rectangular and has a 17th-century extension at right angles to the rear, along with a kitchen extension at right angles to that.
The house has two storeys and an attic, with a three-windowed facade. The lower right side includes a 19th-century three-light double-chamfered stone-mullioned casement with a stopped hood, while the far left features 20th-century glass doors with steel frames. The central entrance is a plank door with an early thumb latch, set within a flat-chamfered dressed stone surround and a late 19th to early 20th-century gabled stone-built porch with a timber gable. A continuous drip moulding runs from the glass doors to the three-light window, with stopped hoods at each end.
On the upper floor, there are two three-light double-chamfered stone-mullioned casements flanking a single-light double-chamfered surround. The left gable end has two three-light double-chamfered stone-mullioned casements with stopped hoods, along with a similar two-light casement in the attic. The right gable end features a 20th-century stone-mullioned casement, with one three-light and one two-light casement. There are traces of a projecting bread oven on the gable end of the kitchen extension. The main body has a twin axial stack, restored in the 20th century, and a lateral brick stack. The gable ends are finished with stepped coping and roll-cross saddles. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Pool House receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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