33 AND 34, THE RING

Nos 33 and 34 on The Ring are a farmhouse that has been converted into two cottages. They were built in the early 18th century and altered in the 20th century. The building is made of dressed limestone and has a concrete tiled roof, with brick stacks at the gable ends and coped verges. It has an L-shaped plan and is three stories high with three windows featuring casements.

The central entrance has a four-panelled door set within a depressed Tudor-arched stone case, which includes carved spandrels. Above the door is an oval plaque inscribed with the name William Baker. On either side of the door are three-light ovolo-mullioned casements. The first floor features three-light ovolo-mullioned casements on either side of a two-light ovolo-mullioned casement. The second floor, or attic, has three two-light chamfered mullioned casements with leaded lights.

On the right side of the building, there is a two-light ovolo-mullioned casement on the ground floor and first floor, along with a 20th-century casement on the first floor and a single ovolo-moulded casement in the attic. The left side has a four-panelled door with a blocked chamfered light to the right, a three-light mullioned casement to the left, and two-light mullioned casements on both the first floor and attic.

At the rear, there is a wing with a 20th-century flat-roofed extension attached to the left. The interior was not accessible during the survey in November 1985. This building was formerly known as Baker's Farmhouse; William Baker was a significant freeholder in the mid-18th century, and the farm remained in the Baker family until it was purchased by William Beckford in 1796.