Description

SX 79 SW
9/20

CHERITON BISHOP
West Ford Farmhouse

GV
II

Farmhouse, now house. C16 core, C17 improvements and extensions, partly rebuilt
and further extended in late C18- early C19, modernised 1984. Plastered cob on
rubble footings; granite, cob and brick stacks topped with C19 brick; wheat reed
thatched roof. 2-storeys facing south. 4-room plan to main block with stables and
hayloft attached to left (west) end. Lobby entrance house with one heated room to
left of front door and 2 to right. Projecting service wing with gable-end stack.
Kitchen-bakehouse in right end room with massive gable-end stack is isolated from
main house by blind cob crosswall. Roof half-hipped to left. Irregular front.
Large door and unglazed window to stables on left. Main house to left of service
wing has symmetrical 2-window arrangement of C19 3-light casements and central
door, and to right doors to kitchen and service block are sheltered behind outshot
with corrugated iron roof. It seems likely that early core of the building lies
between cob crosswalls and towards eastern end upper part of a smoke-blackened
truss remains (presumably C16). Roof otherwise late C18-early C19 in date, and
most of layout and features below are contemporary. Kitchen-bakehouse and service
wing escaped modernisation; former still cobbled with massive granite fireplace,
its oak lintel covered by mantelshelf on shaped brackets, latter with granite
fireplace with oak lintel chamfered with scroll stops, spice-cupboard to left with
carved oak surround, and small oak 2-light window with chamfered mullions in west
wall. Both date from second half of C17. Late C17 ceilings in east end of main
room features simple oval panel defined by moulded rib. The late C18-early C19
scheme was apparently never finished as room left of front door was never plastered
and its fireplace never used.

Listing NGR: SX7321793783

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26399878

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6