Ridge Farmhouse And Walls To Front Garden

Ridge Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse built on an earlier core, constructed of rubble stone with stone-tiled roofs, coped gables, and paired ashlar stacks at the west end. The house has a principal "L" shape and a formal south front of squared rubble with three large gables and parapets. The south front features a three-window range of recessed windows with ovolo-moulded mullions: three-light windows with hoodmoulds in the attic, four-light windows with king-mullions on the first floor, and a dripcourse, along with relieving arches over the ground and first floors. A door in a flush, moulded surround, flanked by two-light windows and a stepped dripcourse, is positioned slightly off-centre. Flush quoins are also present. Similar windows are found on the east end, with three-lights to the first floor. A rear wall stack is also visible.

The rear of the farmhouse has plain tiles, a tall, projecting, gabled stair tower positioned off-centre, and a large gable to the right. The stair tower has a blank two-light window near the top and a single light below on the west side. A lean-to roofed structure adjoins the stair tower on the right, containing a recessed chamfered mullion window with a hoodmould, and the gable has a blank two-light window in the attic. The ground and first floor windows of the gable are recessed, chamfered three-light windows with relieving arches. A hoodmould extends over the first floor, and the ground floor hoodmould continues to the left over a door in the lean-to. A single square light with a hoodmould sits to the right at half level.

A rear wing extends from the main range in two sections, with a ridge stack between and a north end stack. The first section of the wing has an east gable with recessed, chamfered windows and hoodmoulds; a three-light window is positioned above, and a two-light window below. A two-light window is set into the west rear wall. The end section of the wing has cornerstones marking a straight joint on the west side, and a buttress is located in a similar position on the east. A three-light ovolo-moulded window sits between two doors on the west side.

A two-storey dairy wing is located at the west end of the main range, with a centre door positioned between two two-light windows with hoodmoulds. A similar window is placed to the right of the doorway, with a door to the left. A similar two-light window is found to the centre and right of the first floor, though the mullion is missing from the centre window. A coped west gable displays a similar two-light window in the apex.

The front garden is enclosed by walls. The east side wall incorporates a flush-moulded gateway by the house and five beeboles on the rear east-facing side. The low west wall has five ground-level rectangular recesses on its east side, with an unknown purpose. A low wall at the front is punctuated by two ashlar piers with caps and a spearhead gate.

The house, formerly known as Longs, was associated with the Keynes family around 1560, the Bushnell family from 1597 to 1694, and later belonged to W. Mountjoy of Biddestone until 1738.