Ford

ST 13 SE WEST BAGBOROUGH SEVEN ASH

3/291 Ford - II

House. Circa early Cl7 with C19 alterations and extension. Plastered stone rubble and probably some cob. Thatched roof with gabled ends, the left (north west) gable with stone coping to verges. Gable end stacks with short brick shafts. Plan and development: 1 storey and attic, 2-room plan house. The larger room at the lower left end would have been the kitchen with its gable end fireplace with smoking chamber and newel staircase either side and probably later ovens projecting at the back. The smaller right-hand room is also heated from a gable end stack but it was probably originally unheated. The central entrance gave direct entry into the kitchen (although there is a doorway opposite at the back) but in the C19 a lobby was built inside the front doorway and an outshut was added across the back of the house. Exterior: 1 storey and attic. Asymmetrical 3-window front. Circa late C19 3-light casements, except for 2-light casement to right of centre and very small window on extreme left. Eaves thatch is 'eyebrowed' over attic window to left of centre. Doorway almost at centre with C19 plank door and flat canopy on shaped wooden brackets. On left-hand corner a raking stone rubble buttress. At rear a small casement on right and an outshut with Bridgewater double Roman pantile lean-to roof, plank door with late C19 2-light casement to right and C20 casement on left. The lower left (north west) end has projecting oven with slate lean-to roof. The right hand (south east) end has C19 and C20 casements. Interior: Right hand room has chamfered cross-beam with ogee stops and fireplace with simple late C19 wooden chimneypiece. Lower left room has deeply chamfered cross-beam and half-beam is lower end wall both with large ogee stops. Large fireplace with cambered chamfered timber lintel with one straight cut and one ogee stop. To side of fireplace a wooden newel staircase. The roof over the lower end chamber of 2 bays with one jointed cruck truss with 3 tiers of trenched purlins (the lower tier missing) and cambered collar tenoned into. principals and diagonally set ridgepiece. Roof over right-hand end is later structure with straight principals and staggered purlins. C19 joinery including plank doors.

Listing NGR: ST1541433292