Ford

The Ford is a house dating from the early 17th century, with alterations and an extension from the 19th century. It is constructed of plastered stone rubble, likely with some cob, and has a thatched roof with gabled ends. The northwest gable has stone coping to the verges, and there are gable end stacks with short brick shafts. Originally a simple 1-storey, 2-room plan house, the larger room on the lower left end was likely the kitchen, featuring a gable end fireplace with a smoking chamber, newel staircases on either side, and later ovens projecting at the back. The smaller room to the right was probably originally unheated. A central front entrance originally led directly into the kitchen, although in the 19th century, a lobby was built inside the front doorway, and an outshut was added across the back of the house.

The front of the house presents an asymmetrical 3-window facade, with late 19th-century 3-light casement windows, except for a 2-light casement to the right of centre and a small window on the extreme left. The eaves are 'eyebrowed' over the attic window to the left of centre. The front door is a 19th-century plank door with a flat canopy supported on shaped wooden brackets. A raking stone rubble buttress is located in the left-hand corner. The rear features a small casement on the right, an outshut with a lean-to roof covered in Bridgewater double Roman pantile tiles, a plank door, a late 19th-century 2-light casement to its right, and a 20th-century casement on the left. A projecting oven with a slate lean-to roof is at the lower left (northwest) end, and the right-hand (southeast) end has 19th and 20th-century casements.

Inside, the right-hand room has chamfered cross-beams with ogee stops and a simple late 19th-century wooden chimneypiece. The lower left room features deeply chamfered cross-beams, with large ogee stops on the lower end wall. It contains a large fireplace with a cambered chamfered timber lintel, one straight cut and one ogee stop, and a wooden newel staircase to the side of the fireplace. The roof over the lower end chamber is of 2 bays, with one jointed cruck truss and 3 tiers of trenched purlins (the lower tier missing). It also has cambered collars tenoned into the principals and a diagonally set ridgepiece. The roof over the right-hand end is a later structure with straight principals and staggered purlins. Other features include 19th-century joinery, including plank doors.