Ham House

House, dating from around 1740, with a one-bay extension added in the mid to late 19th century. The front of the house is built of Flemish bond red brick, with an old tile roof and flared brick stacks. It is a double-depth plan, two storeys and an attic, and has a three-window front. The central gabled entrance bay is brought forward, topped by three ball finials, and features a fine Ionic Venetian window above a doorway with a 20th-century door and glazing. There are late 18th-century sash windows in the outer bays, with gauged brick flat arches above them. A moulded cornice runs along the top of the front, and a late 19th-century bay has been added to the left, built in a matching style and materials, with a lateral moulded stack and a rear canted bay. The house has one-bay wings at the rear of the main range, with hipped roofs, and a 18th-century sash window to the right. These wings flank a large central canted bay of flared brick with red brick dressings, flanking stacks, and a pyramidal roof. The central bay and the left block have moulded string and plinth courses and gauged brick flat arches over the sashes. Much of the right block is hidden by a mid to late 19th-century range to the right of the front, and a T-shaped, one-storey block from the mid 18th century is located to the rear.

The interior of the house features a front hall with a black and white stone-tiled floor, and mid 18th-century six-panelled doors in shouldered architraves with elaborate carved cornices to the left and right. A three-bay screen of fluted Doric columns leads to a rear hall, which also has similar doors and a finely carved fireplace. There is an open-well staircase with turned balusters and handrails that ramp up to fluted newel posts to the rear left, and a quarter-turn staircase with turned balusters and a three-bay round-headed triple-keyed screen to the right. A room to the left of the hall has bolection-moulded panelling and a fine mid 18th-century fireplace reset into the left side wall. A room to the right has an early 18th-century fireplace. The first floor has round-headed doorways with key and impost blocks, and six-panelled doors. A one-storey block to the rear right features similar doorways with carved cornices, leading to a panelled room with a fine fireplace boasting a cherub’s head on a bolection-moulded overmantle, and a broken pediment above a central urn. A room to the rear of this block has late 19th-century Georgian-style panelling.