Description

SO 4698-4798 LEBOTWOOD C.P. LEEBOTWOOD

11/57 The Pound Inn and 29.1.52 attached barn (formerly listed as Pound Inn)

GV II

Farmhouse and barn, now Inn. Probably C15 or early C16 with c.1600, late C19 and mid-C20 alterations and additions. Rendered timber frame, partly of cruck construction, rendered masonry additions and weatherboarded timber framed barn; thatched roof. Baffle-entry hall range of 2 framed bays with projecting gabled cross wing to right, and later addition and attached barn to left. One storey and attic. Central rendered ridge stack, integral rendered brick end stack to left, and integral lateral rendered stack to left of cross wing; 2 large, probably C17, full gabled eaves dormers with C20 three-light wooden casements, that to right dated 1650. Two C20 ground-floor 3-light leaded wooden casements (that to left a canted bay), central gabled porch with 3-light C20 leaded wooden casement to front and half-glazed boarded door in left- hand return front with open timber porch; boarded doors to right and to far left, both with bracketed elliptical-roofed porches. Cross wing to right with attic and ground-floor C20 three-light canted bay window. C20 flat-roofed addition to right with canted bay window. probably early C19 weatherboarded barn adjoining to left with sandstone rubble plinth and boarded loft door in gable end. Mounting block adjoining cross wing to left. 2 storey gabled wing at rear with ridge stack. Interior: hall range with 3 full cruck trusses; inserted c.1600 first floor in hall range has pair of chamfered spine beams with ogee stops and chamfered joists with ogee stops. Inserted c.1600 stack with fireplace rebuilt in C20 but incorporating chamfered wooden lintel. This building became an inn in 1823 when the former Pound Inn was burnt down. V.C.H., Vol. VIII, pp.99-100; Alcock, p.144.

Listing NGR: SO4760098757

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