The Pound, Bepton Road, Midhurst

The Pound, Bepton Road, Midhurst, GU29 9HF

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Overview

A square stone animal pound, probably of early C19 date. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1403780
Date first listed:: 14-Sep-2011
List Entry Name:: The Pound, Bepton Road, Midhurst
Statutory Address:: The Pound, Bepton Road, Midhurst, GU29 9HF

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1403780
Date first listed:: 14-Sep-2011
List Entry Name:: The Pound, Bepton Road, Midhurst
Statutory Address 1:: The Pound, Bepton Road, Midhurst, GU29 9HF

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Sources

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Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.