Ford Farmhouse

Ford Farmhouse is an 18th-century farmhouse located on Cribble Lane in Rockbeare. The building features plastered walls, with some sections thick enough for cob and others likely made of brick. It has brick stacks topped with 18th and 19th-century brick and a slate roof. The main block faces southwest and has a two-room layout with a central staircase, with each room having an end stack. Flanking the main block are low wings, each with an end stack, set back from the front. The left wing is slightly shorter than the right, which has a false end chimney for symmetry and a large rear lateral kitchen stack. The main block is two storeys high with attics and a cellar beneath the right room, while the wings are single storey. The front would appear symmetrical if the wings were of equal length.

The main block features a five-window front with 19th-century horned eight-pane sash windows, with the ground-floor windows being slightly taller than those on the first floor. The central doorway is original, consisting of a six-panel door with a narrow overlight featuring glazing bars, and is sheltered by a flat-roofed porch supported by fluted Doric columns and a simply moulded entablature. The roof has deep plain eaves and is hipped at both ends. Each wing has a gable end and a front Venetian window with a central twelve-pane sash.

Inside, the farmhouse is well preserved, featuring a dogleg stair with an open string, square-section newel posts, slender turned balusters with square blocks, and a moulded flat handrail that extends to the attics, illuminated by a skylight. Much of the joinery detail is original, including a moulded box cornice with dentils in the right ground-floor room, an Adams-style chimneypiece, and a four-panel door to the stair lobby hung on H-L hinges.