Ford Farmhouse

Ford Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early 16th century, with later alterations and extensions. It is constructed from roughcast random rubble masonry and features a gable end slate roof. The house has a three-room, through-passage plan, with the service end located to the right of the passage. Originally, the hall was open to the roof, while the other rooms have always been two storeys. The structure is built using jointed cruck construction, comprising four trusses and three bays. The hall occupies slightly more than one bay and is separated from the inner room by a partition that extends from the floor to the apex of the roof, standing several feet away from the nearest hall cruck. The hall is heated by an inserted stone axial stack that backs onto the passage. Uniquely, the service end has two fireplaces, one with a lateral rear stack and the other with an external stone end stack, both of which are now blocked and appear to be quite old. The inner room was likely unheated initially and now features an internal end stack with a brick shaft. There are stairs located at the rear of the service end.

The exterior of the farmhouse has a three-window range, with 19th-century three-light casement windows on the first floor and 20th-century three-light windows in the hall and inner room, along with a two-light window in the service room. The right-hand end has 20th-century fenestration. The rear has a continuous outshut and 20th-century metal casement windows on the first floor. Inside, the hall features a fireplace with large Beer stone chamfered jambs and a chamfered wooden lintel. The axial ceiling beam looks relatively recent. The inner room has a boxed axial ceiling beam and a chamfered axial half beam. The roof consists of four jointed crucks with the apex morticed and pegged (Alcock type F2). The partition mentioned earlier is sooted on the hall side only, as is the truss above the through-passage in the service end.