Listing Text

WEST ALVINGTON
SX 74 SW
5/193 Pound house approximately 15m. east
of Longbrook Farmhouse

G. V. II

Farm building, reputedly a pound house. Roughly coursed slatestone rubble walls
with cob at the top. Thatch roof with corrugated iron over, hipped to the left
end, half-hipped to the right.
Plan: rectangular, apparently originally a 2-bay linhay at the left-hand end,
pound house to the right and a small wing at the right-hand end.
Exterior: 2 storeys with a single storey wing projecting from the right-herd
end. Lower left-hand part was originally open-fronted with a central circular
rubble pier, It has now been infilled with stone on the ground floor,
weatherboarding above. Along the front are 3 doorways and a first floor loading
hatch.
Interior: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SX7233643575