Ridge'S Farm

DOWLAND UPCOTT SS 50 NE 8/110 Ridge's Farm II Farmhouse. Probably later C17 but altered in circa early C20. Plastered. Gable- ended thatch roof, hipped corrugated iron roof to adjoining barn. 2 brick stacks, one axial and one at right gable-end. Plan: 3-room plan but apparently not with the customary through-passage. The 2 end rooms are heated, the left-hand one by an axial stack. The central service room is small and has an axial passage in front of it between the 2 end rooms through which the house is entered. A C20 staircase has been inserted between the right-hand and central rooms. At the left-hand end of the house an C18 barn has been added. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4-window front. On 1st floor are 2 metal frame casements to right of centre and left, and 2 early C19 horizontal sliding 12-pane sashes. 2 late C19 6-pane sashes on ground floor with late C20 2-light casement without glazing bars to left. C20 gabled porch to right of centre with part-glazed door. Barn at left-hand end has cart entrance on front wall. Interior: rough ceiling beam in left-hand room. Its open fireplace was probably rebuilt in the C19 and has brick jambs. Late C18 or early C19 corner cupboard with panelled door. Feet of insubstantial straight principal rafters visible on 1st floor.

Listing NGR: SS5766109671