Ford Cottage

Ford Cottage is a house dating from the mid or late 16th century, with an extension on the right side made in the 18th century in two stages. It has one-and-a-half storeys and attics, constructed from timber framing and rendered. The thatched roof features eyebrow casement dormers, and there are axial and gable chimneys made of red brick. The axial chimney, from the 16th century, has a circular flue on an octagonal base at the front, with carved bricks forming a diaper-work pattern. A pair of flattened hexagonal flues from the 17th century likely replaced a second circular flue. The house has 20th-century small-pane casements and a boarded entrance door. The 16th-century timber framing is of good quality, featuring a clasped-purlin roof, close-studding, and evidence of unglazed windows. Originally, the house may have had three cells, but the third cell was demolished and rebuilt when the house was divided into cottages in the 18th century.