Ford Cottage

Ford Cottage is a house dating to around 1600, with a later 17th-century addition and a late 20th-century restoration. It was originally divided into two dwellings and is located on the south side of Ford Street in Wigmore. The house is timber-framed with rendered infill on a rubble base, with some rubble walling and shingles at the east end. It has a slate roof, featuring a rebuilt brick stack at the west end of the ridge and a 17th-century recapped brick stack to the front.

The original part of the house comprises three framed bays and a chimney bay, aligned east-west, with a two-bay framed addition to the west. The main part is two storeys high, while the addition is a single storey with an attic. The framing of the main part features two rows of irregularly sized panels per storey, with short straight braces in the lower corners at first floor level. The first floor of the north front is jettied on shaped brackets, with a rubble pier at the west end; the south elevation was originally also jettied but has been underbuilt in rubble. A collar and tie-beam truss with raking struts is partly exposed at the west end. The addition has three rows of square panels from sill to wall-plate, and the west gable-end truss is concealed beneath shingles.

The north front has 20th-century casement windows: two 3-light windows on the ground floor and eight 2-light windows on the first floor. The main entrance, likely originally in the through-passage position, is to the left of the second bay from the west, and has a 20th-century door. The addition has a 3-light and a single-light 20th-century casement on the ground floor, and an attic light in the gable end. A 20th-century lean-to addition with two garage doors sits beneath the attic light, and a further lean-to addition is located at the rear.

Inside, the main ceiling beams have stop-chamfered stops, and subsidiary ceiling beams in the central ground floor room have bar chamfer stops.