Ford Green Farmhouse

Ford Green Farmhouse is a house that was formerly a farmhouse, dating from the early 18th century and remodelled in the early 19th century. It is constructed of plum-coloured brick in Flemish garden wall bond and features a clay plain tile roof with gabled ends and brick gable-end stacks.

The building has a two-room plan with a central entrance and staircase hall, a parlour on the left, and a hall/kitchen on the right, with a service wing (now a separate dwelling called The Cottage) behind the right-hand room. A single-storey wing was added to the rear of the left room in the late 20th century.

The exterior consists of three storeys and a cellar, with a symmetrical three-window north front. The ground and first floors have 19th-century tripartite sash windows with cambered stuccoed heads, while the second floor features 3- and 2-light casement windows. The central doorway is framed by a late 20th-century brick gabled porch, leading to an early 20th-century inner door. At the rear, there is a single-storey late 20th-century wing on the right and a two-storey former service wing (now The Cottage) on the right.

Inside, the joinery includes early 19th-century panelled doors on the ground floor and early 18th-century six-panel doors on the first floor, along with plank attic doors, panelled window shutters, and 20th-century panelling in the hall. Most chimneypieces are missing or replaced, except for a fine early 18th-century chimneypiece and overmantel in the left first-floor chamber, which features panelled pilasters and large fluted pilasters on the overmantel. The house has a good early 18th-century dog-leg staircase leading to the attic, complete with a moulded string, heavy moulded handrail, turned balusters, and square newels. The ceiling beams are stop-chamfered. The north bay of the roof includes a tie-beam and king-post truss with struts and reused principals, while the rest of the roof is supported by large purlins on the brick cross-walls. The cellar has rendered stone walls and brick vaults.