Fordhay House, With Well 3 Metres To South

ST41SE EAST CHINNOCK CP FORDHAY (East side)

3/66 Fordhay House, with well 3 metres to South (Fordhay House formerly listed) 19.4.61

GV II

House. Dated 1690. Local stone rubble coursed, Has stone dressings; Welsh slate between coped gables; brick end chimney stacks to main block, and intermediate stack to extension. 2-storeys, 3-bays-with later extensions Eastwards. Hollow chamfer mullioned windows with timber casement infills under labels, 3-light to bays 1 and 3 and 2-light to bay 2, ground floor; above casement windows under exposed timber lintels: old boarded entrance door in plain opening between bays-2 and 3, protected by double hipped lead roofed porch of C19, resting on 4 cast-iron columns. Extension of 3-bays, 2-bays using larger stones, divided by coped gable to East gable; C19 casement windows segmental arched heads below and heavy stone lintels above. On East kneeler gable stone, main block is incised the initial K or R and date 1690. On West, roadside, wall a mounting block and steps. Formerly an inn, according to local tradition, 3 metres South of first extension a well, about 11 metres down to water; old random stone walls below ground, C20 wall above ground.

Listing NGR: ST4953012994