The Pound, Bepton Road, Midhurst
The Pound, Bepton Road, Midhurst, GU29 9HF
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1403780
- Date first listed:
- 14-Sept-2011
- List Entry Name:
- The Pound, Bepton Road, Midhurst
- Statutory Address:
- The Pound, Bepton Road, Midhurst, GU29 9HF
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1403780
- Date first listed:
- 14-Sept-2011
- List Entry Name:
- The Pound, Bepton Road, Midhurst
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Pound, Bepton Road, Midhurst, GU29 9HF
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- The Pound, Bepton Road, Midhurst, GU29 9HF
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- West Sussex
- District:
- Chichester (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Midhurst
- National Park:
- South Downs
- National Grid Reference:
- SU8827321225
Summary
A square stone animal pound, probably of early C19 date.
Reasons for Designation
The Pound, Bepton Road, Midhurst a square stone animal pound, probably of early C19 date, is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Integrity of fabric: this animal pound retains all four walls and the original coping, although heightened in the C20, and while the gate is a C20 replacement, few pounds retain the original gates.
* Rarity of building type: most villages and market towns would have had a pound but many have been lost and only about 200 examples are listed in England.
* Historic interest: an example of a rural building type, for the securing of stray animals, which are no longer being built.
History
This animal pound probably dates from the early C19 and a parish pound is noted on the tithe apportionment. It is currently in use as a walled garden.
Details
The pound comprises a rectangular enclosure of stone rubble walls about 1.2m high. The north side adjoining Bepton Road has a central opening with a C20 wooden gate. The upper part of the eastern part of this side has been patched in brick. The parapet was originally of stone which slopes towards the middle of the enclosure but in the C20 a course of bricks laid on end was added to it. Part of a stone floor is visible within the enclosure and the remainder is thought to survive beneath later turf.
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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