Ridge Farmhouse And Walls To Front Garden

ST 86 NE 3/356 20.12.60

CORSHAM THE RIDGE Ridge Farmhouse and walls to front garden. (formerly listed as Ridge Farmhouse and barn at Ridge Farm)

GV II

Farmhouse, C17 on earlier core, rubble stone with stone-tiled roofs, coped gables and west end paired ashlar stacks. Two and a half storeys, 'L'-plan. Formal south front in squared rubble with 3 large gables with parapets between. Three-window range of recessed ovolo-moulded mullion windows, 3-light with hoodmoulds to attic, 4-light with king-mullions, dripcourse over and relieving arches to ground and first floors with 8-panel door in flush moulded surround flanked by 2-lights and dripcourse stepped over door slightly off-centre. Flush quoins. Similar windows to east end but 3-light to first floor. Rear wall stack. Rear has plain tiles, tall projecting off-centre gabled stair tower and large gable to right. Stair tower has blank upper 2-light window and lower single light on west side, lean-to in angle to right with 2- light recessed chamfered mullion window and hoodmould over and gable has blank attic 2-light, ground and first floor recessed chamfered 3-light windows with relieving arches. Hoodmould to first floor, ground floor hoodmould continued to left over door in lean-to. Single square light with hoodmould to right at half level. Rear wing in two sections with ridge stack between and north end stack. First section has east gable with recessed chamfered windows and hoodmoulds, 3-light above, 2-light below. Two-light window to west rear wall. End section has cornerstones to straight joint on west side, buttress in similar position on east and west side 3-light ovolo-moulded window between 2 doors. At west end of main range, 2-storey dairy wing with centre door between two 2-lights with hoodmoulds, similar window to right, door to left. Similar 2-light to centre and right of first floor, centre window with mullion missing. Coped west gable and similar 2-light in gable apex. Front garden of house is enclosed by walls. East side wall has flush moulded gateway by house and 5 beeboles on rear east side, low west wall has 5 ground-level rectangular recesses on east side, purpose unknown. Low front wall has 2 ashlar piers with caps and spearhead gate. House, once known as Longs, belonged to Keynes family c1560, Bushnell family 1597-1694, and to W. Mountjoy of Biddestone to 1738.

Listing NGR: ST8704468159