Ford Cottage

Ford Cottage is a cottage dating from the 17th century, which has been extensively altered in the early 20th century. It features a rough cast exterior over rubble and has an asbestos slate roof that is half hipped to the right, with a brick stack on the gable end to the left. Originally, the cottage had a two-cell plan without a cross passage, but it has since been enlarged. The building is one and a half storeys tall, with all windows dating from the 20th century. It includes one two-light dormer window, a three-light window on the ground floor, a two-light window, and a 20th-century glazed door, with roughcast raking buttresses between these features. There are three-light casement windows on one bay of the right return, and there are flat-roofed single-storey additions to the left return and rear. Inside, the ground floor has chamfered beams with run-out stops. The main point of interest in the cottage is the large exposed jointed cruck truss on the first floor, which may have been reused from an earlier building.