Corndon Ford Farmhouse

Corndon Ford Farmhouse is a longhouse that dates from the 16th or 17th century, with a porch added in 1718 and lean-tos at the rear and left-hand end. The building is constructed of granite rubble, with the house part (excluding the porch) covered in roughcast, while the lean-to at the left-hand end is made of concrete block. The roofs are slated, with the shippon roof slightly lower than the rest. A large granite ashlar chimneystack with thatch weatherings and a shaped tapered top is located on the ridge at the right-hand end of the house part, and there is a large rendered stack on the left-hand gable.

The house part likely has a two-room plan, with a hall stack backing onto a cross-passage, which is structurally within the shippon part. There appears to be a small room between the cross-passage and the shippon, sealed off by a solid stone wall without doors at ground-storey level. The farmhouse is two storeys high and has two windows in the house part, along with an additional window in the porch. All windows feature 19th-century wood casements, with two or three panes per light. The porch has a moulded, round-arched granite doorway, with the initials RW and the date 1718 carved in the spandrels, and an old plank door with wrought-iron strap-hinges. There are five pigeon-holes in the right-hand wall of the porch.

The shippon has a doorway with a plain granite lintel at the left-hand end, with a small window to the left of it, also with a similar lintel. To the right of the doorway are two original slit windows. The right-hand gable, which faces the road, features three additional slits in the ground storey and a fourth centrally placed in the upper storey. At the base of this wall, there is a well-made opening for the shippon drain. The rear wall of the shippon has a single slit window. The interior has not been inspected, but it is noted that the upper-floor beams of the shippon were replaced in the 20th century. The farmhouse and the barn opposite, which is separately listed, form a good group.