Description

FORD CP FORD SO 55 NW 2/57 Ford Farmhouse and adjoining granary GV II Farmhouse and adjoining granary, now holiday flats. Mid-C18 with mid-C19 and late C20 alterations. Coursed dressed sandstone rubble with brick dressings and partly brick faced, machine-tiled hipped roof with end brick stacks. Two storeys with cogged brick eaves cornice. Three bays. Windows have cambered brick heads. On the ground floor is a 20-pane sash and a 3- light casement with a transom and on the first floor are two 3-light case- ments and a 4-light casement. Central entrance has a C20 gabled brick porch on a rubble base with trellis infill and, within, the doorway has a moulded architrave, a half-glazed door with side lights and a transom light with four glazing bars. The south gable end has been faced with brick. Interior: some original panelled doors survive. To rear of ground floor is a re-set stone doorway with a two-centred head and chamfered jambs (said to have probably come from Leominster Priory). Granary: mid-c18, Part sandstone rubble, part timber-framed with brick infill and corrugated iron roof. Probably four bays adjoining north gable end of farmhouse. Two levels. Framing: three rows of panels at upper floor level with some long straight braces across upper corners. Collar and tie-beam truss at north gable end with four struts below collar and subsidiary lower rail. East front elevation: there is a 2-light and a single-light C20 casement on the ground floor, four first floor C20 single-light casements and a raking-top dormer with a 2-light and a single-light C20 casement. Adjacent to the farmhouse is a lean-to outshut with a catslide roof, a 2-light casement and a C20 door.

Listing NGR: SO5112255277

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