Pound Cottage And Dunromin

SO 9607-9707 DUNTISBOURNE ABBOTS DUNTISBOURNE ABBOTS VILLAGE

9/63 Pound Cottage and Dunromin (Pound Cottage previously listed as Sunnyside) 4.6.52 II

Formerly 2 houses in row with further 2 in row added across one end, now 2 attached houses. Early C17 with C18 addition; pair of houses added in c1880. Random rubble limestone; ashlar dressings on Pound Cottage; rock-faced chimneys at west end, ashlar with moulded cap at east; stone-slate roofs. C17 house of 2 storeys, 2 rooms with cross-passage, gable end fireplace and spiral staircase. Pair of single-storey single-room houses with attic and central chimney stack. Lean-to in angle at back. Scattered fenestration to Pound Cottage: at front, 2-light recessed cavetto mullioned window with hoodmould to left of doorway with chamfered surround and Tudor arch, now blocked. 2 timber casements to upper floor with timber lintels. North gable end shows signs of the roof being raised; projecting round-ended bread oven; single- light chamfered stair window. Fenestration to back is principally C19: timber casements with timber lintels; to left of doorway a small single-light window with recessed chamfered surround and hoodmould. Front to Dunromin has fenestration to ground floor only, each house having a segmental arched doorway and window, plank door and small-paned casement. Gable end to road has attic timber casement with timber lintel; inserted timber casement to ground floor with deep stone lintel; exposed purlin ends in gable. Gable end spiral staircases survive in both houses that comprise Pound Cottage.

Listing NGR: SO9703407969