Pound Cottage Including Adjoining Linhay To North

MORETONHAMPSTEAD POUND STREET, SX 7586 Moretonhampstead 9/165 Pound Cottage including - adjoining linhay to north GV II

Small farmhouse and adjoining outbuilding which is now incorporated into the house, and adjoining linhay. Probably late C18. Granite rubble. Roughcast front and right-hand gable end of house. Thatched roof with gabled ends. Roof to left slopes up to higher level over the former outbuilding. Linhay at far left end has half-hipped corrugated iron roof. Roughcast brick chimneystacks at right-hand gable end, and left-hand gable end of original house, now an axial stack. Long range build down the slope of the land. At the lower end (right) a 2-room plan house. Larger room to lower right end, both rooms heated by gable end chimney stacks without ovens. The entrance to left of centre, probably originally a lobby in front of stairs, or there may have been a through passage but the partition on the right-hand side has been removed and the stairs are late C20. Contemporary outbuilding, probably stables on left-hand higher end is now incorporated into the house. Adjoining at higher level to left, contemporary and integral part of the range, a linhay facing field at rear. 2 storeys. The original house to right: regular but not symmetrical 3-window range. Circa early C20 2-light casements with glazing bars, ground floor right similar but 3 lights. Plank door to left of centre with C20 rustic timber gabled porch with slate roof. Former outbuilding to left now part of house light casements with glazing bars and segmental red brick arches, and central doorway with similar arch. At rear of house a ground floor window opposite front door might have been passage doorway originally, it has chamfered wooden lintel. Small window to left and larger one above. Apart from one more window in rear of former outbuilding there are no other rear windows. Linhay to far left has blind rear wall facing front, loft doorway in gable end; on front facing field behind house, ground floor is blocked between piers and has weatherboarded tallet above. Interior: partition on left side of lobby or passage removed; C20 stairs. Small fireplace in left-hand room having had grate taken out. Larger fireplace in right- hand room with unchamfered wooden lintel, probably a replacement. There are no other interior features. Roof space not inspected but feet of the principal rafters exposed in first floor rooms are straight. This is an interesting small farmhouse with a contemporary stables and linhay in one long range.

Listing NGR: SX7525485812