Building record 7324/0/18 - Pool Farm and associated barns, Hinton Road and Farndon Road

Former farmhouse built in the 17th century. Built of ironstone with a Welsh slate roof. Locally listed building.

{1} Pool Farm is a substantial farmhouse constructed in the 17th century with adjacent outbuildings, now also converted to residential use. Built in the local ironstone, the farmhouse’s principal frontage faces the western entrance to Pool Street, which is also lined with historic properties including the grade II listed Bromleys Farm House to the south.
The farmhouse is constructed of local ironstone and has a five bays and two storeys with a central doorway with a Tudor arch and ironstone hood moulding, and two three-light fixed casement windows with ironstone mullions either side at ground and 1st storey level. Above the doorway is a
central fixed casement window with ironstone lintel.
It has a shallow pitched Welsh slate roof, with three large ironstone chimney stacks at the apex. The outbuildings are also constructed in local ironstone with Welsh slate roofs, and are laid out perpendicular to the main farmhouse along Farndon Road. The property has a large front garden, enclosed to the south and east by a low ironstone boundary wall, and to the north by a taller red-brick wall with saddle stone coping.

<1> Daventry District Council, 2020, Woodford Halse and Hinton Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan, p. 79-80 (Policy Document). SNN111974.

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Feb 20 2025 4:17PM