Ford Cottage Tringford Cottage

Tringford Cottage, originally known as Tringford and Ford Cottage, is a late 16th-century open hall house that has been converted into two houses. It features an earlier west crosswing, a mid-17th-century storied northwest wing, and an eastern bay added beyond the service end of the hall. An early 18th-century inserted floor is present in the hall range, along with decorative brick casing on the northwest wing. The front of the building was altered in the early 19th century with brickwork and tile-hanging on the crosswing.

The structure is timber-framed with red brick infill, which is only exposed on the north wall and the east gable of the northwest wing. The west crosswing has red brick with red tile-hanging on the upper floor. The house has steep old red tile roofs and is designed in a T-plan, consisting of one and a half storeys, with the storeyed west crosswing facing south. The hall comprises two unequal bays, a structural cross-passage, and an eastern service bay of the same width as the passage, which was later supplemented by an additional eastern bay.

The former jettied projecting two-bay west crosswing has a taller two-storey wing attached at the north end, forming an extra parlour wing. The south front is irregular, featuring two 2-light casements, with the right-hand part projecting as a catslide outshut. There are four 2-light swept dormers aligned along the roof. The west side facing the road includes a three-light leaded casement on the tile-hung first floor of the crosswing, and the projecting two-storey brick-clad end of the northwest wing on the left. The first floor has two 18th-century 2-light leaded casements with cambered arches. The ground floor has been altered and now features a three-light leaded casement in the blocking of a larger opening.

The north wall of the northwest wing displays chequered brickwork with vitrified headers, with a 2-light leaded casement on each floor and a lean-to on the left enclosing a massive eastern chimney in a timber-framed, brick-nogged gable. The rear wall shows exposed framing on the upper floor, which includes a four-centred ovolo moulded plastered brick fireplace on the first floor and an axial floor beam with ovolo and single fillet moulding. The west crosswing has jowled posts, a clasped-purlin collar, and a tie-beam trussed roof, with exposed wattles in the infill panel, a cross-beam with a curved brace, and joists.