Pondhayes Farmhouse

DINNINGTON CP COOMBE ROAD (East side, off) ST41SW Pondhayes Farmhouse

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4.2.58 II

Detached farmhouse. c1800, possibly incorporating earlier work. Ham stone cut and squared, ashlar dressings; thatched roof with coped south gable, plain north gable; one ashlar slab and 2 brick chimney stacks. Two storeys, 6 bays. Hollow-chamfered mullioned windows with labels, of 3 lights to lower bays 1, 3, 4 and 5, and above are 3-light casements, those to bays 2 and 5 rectangular-leaded; to lower bay 6 a C20 casement; to bays 2 and 4 segmental-arched doorways with labels having 6-panelled doors in recesses. Top of south gable rendered; outshut to rear. Interior not seen, but reported is a plan form suggesting this was formerly two properties, each with wide fireplace in north gable and possibly with side ovens; in north end upper room an unglazed internally shuttered window, with others having been on ground floor within living memory; roof frame of c1800. In 1819 this was the largest farm in the parish, but it had been supplanted by 1851. (VAG Report, SRO unpublished, 1973; VCH, Vol III, 1974).

Listing NGR: ST4023612636