Pondhayes Farmhouse

Pondhayes Farmhouse is a detached farmhouse dating from around 1800, possibly incorporating earlier work. It is built from cut and squared ham stone with ashlar dressings and features a thatched roof with a coped south gable and a plain north gable. The building has two storeys and six bays. The windows are hollow-chamfered mullioned types with labels, featuring three lights in the lower bays 1, 3, 4, and 5, while above these are three-light casements, with rectangular leaded glass in bays 2 and 5. The lower bay 6 has a 20th-century casement. There are segmental-arched doorways with labels in bays 2 and 4, each containing a six-panelled door set in recesses. The top of the south gable is rendered, and there is an outshut at the rear. Although the interior has not been seen, it is reported to have a plan form suggesting it was once two properties, each with a wide fireplace in the north gable and possibly side ovens. An unglazed internally shuttered window is noted in the upper room at the north end, with others having existed on the ground floor within living memory. The roof frame dates to around 1800. In 1819, this was the largest farm in the parish, although it had been surpassed by 1851.