Pound House About 15 Metres North of Narracombe Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 November 1986. Pound house.
Pound House About 15 Metres North of Narracombe Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- standing-corridor-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 November 1986
- Type
- Pound house
- OS grid reference
- SX 787 767
- Coordinates
- 50.57778, -3.71415
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pound House is built into the hillside to the north of Narracombe Farmhouse and features a separate, two-storey compartment at the south end. It dates from the 19th century or possibly earlier. The structure is made of granite rubble with large, roughly-squared granite block dressings and has a hipped slate roof at both ends.
The south gable wall has only one opening, which is a segmental-headed doorway in the ground storey, featuring an arch made of voussoirs. Above this doorway, the compartment has large barn doors in the side wall. To the left of these barn doors is another wide doorway leading into the main pound house, with a matching doorway on the opposite wall. There is also a single small window with a wooden lintel to the left of this doorway.
Inside the pound house, much of the old wooden apple-crusher remains, fixed to the floor of the storage loft above, although the cider press has been removed.
Local climate
Pound House About 15 Metres North of Narracombe Farmhouse receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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