West Ford Farmhouse

West Ford Farmhouse is a farmhouse that has been converted into a house. It has a core that dates back to the 16th century, with improvements and extensions from the 17th century, and further rebuilding and extensions in the late 18th to early 19th centuries. The building was modernised in 1984. It is constructed of plastered cob on rubble footings, with granite, cob, and brick stacks topped with 19th-century brick, and has a wheat reed thatched roof.

The farmhouse is two storeys high and faces south. It has a four-room plan for the main block, with stables and a hayloft attached to the left (west) end. The entrance is through a lobby with one heated room to the left of the front door and two to the right. There is a projecting service wing with a gable-end stack. The kitchen-bakehouse is located in the right end room, which has a massive gable-end stack and is separated from the main house by a blind cob crosswall. The roof is half-hipped to the left and has an irregular front.

The stables on the left feature a large door and an unglazed window. The main house to the left of the service wing has a symmetrical arrangement of two 19th-century three-light casements and a central door. To the right, the doors to the kitchen and service block are sheltered by an outshot with a corrugated iron roof. It is likely that the early core of the building lies between cob crosswalls, with the upper part of a smoke-blackened truss remaining, presumably from the 16th century. The roof is otherwise from the late 18th to early 19th centuries, and most of the layout and features below are contemporary.

The kitchen-bakehouse and service wing have escaped modernisation; the kitchen-bakehouse still has a cobbled floor and a massive granite fireplace, with its oak lintel covered by a mantelshelf on shaped brackets. The service wing features a granite fireplace with an oak lintel that is chamfered with scroll stops, a spice cupboard to the left with a carved oak surround, and a small oak two-light window with chamfered mullions in the west wall. Both of these date from the second half of the 17th century. The late 17th-century ceilings in the east end of the main room feature a simple oval panel defined by a moulded rib. The late 18th to early 19th-century scheme appears to have been unfinished, as the room to the left of the front door was never plastered and its fireplace was never used.