Tithe House

SJ 41 SW FORD C.P. FORD HEATH

6/70 Tithe House - - II

Farmhouse, now disused. Dated 1755. Red brick on coursed rubblestone plinth; asbestos slate roof. 2-room plan. One storey and gable-lit attic. Projecting brick eaves courses and parapeted gable ends with chamfered red sandstone copings; external brick end stacks. 2- window front; C19 two-light wooden casements, that to right with segmental head; central 2-panelled door and brick porch with chamfered stone-coped parapeted gable and yellow sandstone datestone: A 2-light wooden casements flanking stacks in each gable end. T : M Two 2-light wooden casements at rear. One storey out-house 1755 set back to right with brick end stack. Interior: staircase up from entrance; left-hand ground-floor room with pair of transverse beams, and large open fireplace with bread oven and cast iron range. This house was built for Thomas Ambler, the improprieter of the tithes of Ford, and later occupied by his tithe collector. It is an early and a well preserved small post-enclosure farmhouse and is specially notable as a dated example. V.C.H., Vol. VIII, p. 228.

Listing NGR: SJ4136511309