Ford Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 August 1986. Farmhouse.
Ford Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- sacred-finial-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 August 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
ST11NW WELLINGTON WITHOUT CP FORD STREET
8/190 Ford Farmhouse II
Farmhouse. C16, enlarged C18, refenestrated south front early C19, restored late C20. Roughcast over rubble, brick agricultural wing, slate roofs, half hipped west wing, external stack east gable end marked by lean-to addition, upper part rebuilt in brick, brick stack to hall fireplace, rising from eaves in west wing. Plan : possibly open hall house, celled with 2-bay west wing, agricultural north-east wing, north west agricultural wing demolished. South front: 2 storeys, 1:3: bays, 16-pane sash windows first floor, ground floor 20-pane, with casement in lean-to addition masking external stack, entered on return, main entrance centre, flat roofed wooden columnar porch, panelled door. Rear elevation: chamfered arched door frame and 3-bay brick agricultural wing abutting. Interior: good moulded beams to hall ceiling forming 3 rectangular panels lacking the cross beam one would expect to form a compartment ceiling. South room of wing adjoining with 9-panel chamfered compartment ceiling, stud and panel partition between. Steeply chamfered lateral beam with step and runout stops in northern room with blocked doorway on north front. Evidence of 3 pairs of jointed cruck trusses but not visible in roof space. The building appears to have been reroofed when south front refenestrated.
Listing NGR: ST1498219427
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