Stoford Farmhouse And Yatford Cottage

Stoford Farmhouse and Yatford Cottage is a farmhouse that has been converted into two dwellings. It dates from the 16th to 17th century and was faced in brick in the late 18th to early 19th century. The rear wing was altered in the 20th century. The building features random rubble faced with red brick and purple headers in Flemish bond, with some areas exposed on the east front of the wing and roughcast at the north end. It has a squared and coursed Ham stone plinth and a thatched roof with a tiled rear wing. There is a stone stack at the right gable end and brick stacks to the left of the main entrance, in the center, and to the left of a subsidiary entrance.

The structure has an 'L'-plan layout with five cells and a cross passage facing south, along with a dairy wing to the northeast. It is two storeys high with four bays on the front and one bay on the side. The windows are all 19th-century leaded wooden casements, with three- and four-light windows on the first floor and ground floor under brick voussoirs. The left side has a four-light flanking wooden door and two four-light casements to the right. The right return features an unlit gable end with one bay and three bays, including a large stepped buttress at the junction with the dairy wing.

The interior has not been seen but is said to contain a kitchen to the right of the through passage that links to the dairy wing. This kitchen has a chamfered wooden lintel and chamfered stone jambs to the fireplace, which originally had a curing chamber on the front wall. The hall features an eight-panel compartment ceiling with moulded beams and a fireplace with moulded stone jambs and a hollow chamfered lintel. The inner room has chamfered beads and a step with run-out stops, and it possibly once contained a back-to-back fireplace, which has since been rebuilt. There is also a room beyond with a four-panel compartment ceiling, and stairs have been inserted in the through passage, with chamfered beams in the room beyond. Two pairs of jointed cruck trusses are said to be visible over the inner room and the second hall, which has a large wooden doorframe with an arched head. It is thought that the house was always intended to accommodate two families, with the farmer and their family at the east end and grandparents at the west end.