Pumping House To North Of Farm Buildings At Home Farm

The pumping house, located to the north of the farm buildings at Home Farm, dates from the mid-19th century. It is constructed from nodular flint of unusual size, featuring galleting and Pulborough stone dressings, with a granite plinth. Although the roof has collapsed, it was originally half-hipped.

The building is a single storey and has a corbelled parapet with clasping buttresses at the corners. The north end features a planked door set in a round arch with a plain chamfer at each end, which is obscured by a porch that has a pitched slate roof and gable coping supported by kneelers. The porch has a semi-circular arch with three roll mouldings on the intrados, supported by three and three-quarter colonnettes with cushion capitals and Romanesque bases.

On the west elevation, there are two 2-light windows with plain round arches, also supported by colonnettes with cushion capitals and Romanesque bases, grouped under a single relieving arch, each with a simple hollow chamfer. The windows have diagonal lead glazing bars. The east elevation features two 2-light oblong windows with plain chamfers and diagonal lead glazing bars. The machinery inside is now derelict.

Historically, the "show" facade is on the west side, as Mill Road did not exist before around 1350, and the road to South Stoke passed to the west of the buildings at Swanbourne. The view by Fredk. Mason suggests that the pumping house and the farmyard were among the earliest structures in the group.

The Home Farmhouse, farm buildings, pumping house, and bridge form a cohesive group, along with the retaining walls to the pools.