Fords Green

Fords Green is a house dating from the 16th century, built in two stages. It consists of two blocks arranged at right angles to each other, connected by a narrow link. The longer range is from the early 16th century, while the eastern block dates to around 1550. The house has two storeys, with the eastern block featuring attics. It is constructed with a timber frame and plaster, topped with plaintiled roofs, and the lower range has a hipped roof. There is a 16th-century end chimney and an axial chimney with a rebuilt 19th-century shaft, both made of red brick.

The eastern block has a late 18th-century facade on the north side, which is two storeys high and has three windows. The windows are small-pane sashes of original design but were renewed in the mid-20th century. The entrance features a six-panelled door with fielded panels, a semi-circular fanlight with intersecting bars, and an open pediment supported by console brackets.

The earlier phase of the house has heavy framing, with the south gable originally end-jettied, now internal. It features tension-braced close-studding and blocked diamond-mullioned windows. The main room has massive floor joists that are chamfered, while the roof was rebuilt in the 18th century. The eastern block has a two-cell end-chimney form and high-quality framing, with closely spaced studding and several blocked windows with rib-moulded mullions. The joists are roll-moulded, and the main beams have a double roll with leaf stops. The roof is a wind-braced clasped purlin type, and there is some 17th-century panelling present.