Ford House

Ford House is an 18th-century house located on Elms Hall Road in Colne Engaine. It features a timber frame, is weatherboarded and plastered, and has a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The building has a rectangular plan facing northeast, with one axial stack to the left of the middle and another stack from the 19th or 20th century at the right end in the front pitch of the roof. There is a single-storey lean-to extension at the right end. The house has two storeys and an attic, with a two-window range of early 19th-century sashes that have 16 lights and crown glass, along with one fixed light in the extension. The entrance has an off-centre door with six fielded panels set in a simple doorcase topped by a moulded open pediment. The front of the house is plastered, while the rest is weatherboarded. The rear elevation has a four-window range of 20th-century casements and a 20th-century French window. Ford House was formerly a miller's house associated with a watermill known as White's, which was demolished in 1917. The owner has reported finding newspapers dated 1770 under the wallpaper.