Ford Hall

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SJ 4013-4113 FORD C.P. FORD

13/68 Ford Hall - - II

House. Dated 1729, for George Calcott,with c.1800 and late C19 alterations and additions. Painted brick on painted dressed sandstone plinth; hipped plain tile roof. 2 storeys and attic. South-west front: chamfered plinth, moulded wooden eaves cornice, central C19 gabled full eaves dormer with wooden finial and 4-pane sash with bracketed cill, and C19 ridge cresting; brick ridge stacks off-centre to right and left. 3 bays; segmental-headed late C18 glazing bar sashes, 16-pane in outer bays; central 6-panelled door (top panels glazed) with radial fanlight, flush-panelled reveals and soffit, moulded imposts and chamfered architrave; late C19 brick and timber gabled porch with glazed upper parts. 3-bay left-hand return front with 2 late C19 gabled eaves dormers and 2 late C19 ground-floor canted bays. 3-bay right-hand return front with 2 late C19 gabled eaves dormers, datestone above keystone, and 2 late C19 ground-floor canted bays. Circa 1800 one-storey kitchen wing at rear with dentil brick eaves cornice, parapeted gable end and integral brick end stack. C20 garage block adjoining at rear too. There is said to be a c1800 doorcase at the rear, removed from the front when the late C19 porch was added (not located at time of survey - July 1985). Interior: early C18 three-flight rectangular-well staircase with closed string, turned balusters, moulded handrail, and square newel posts; left-hand ground- floor rear room with late C18 marble chimney-piece consisting of moulded surround, tall inlaid scrolls supporting frieze with amphora in central panel, triglyphs and guttae above scrolls, and cornice with egg and dart enrichment; early C18 six-panelled doors with panelled reveals and moulded architraves; late C18 or early C19 panelled doors with panelled reveals and reeded architraves with paterae at corners. There is said to be one ground-floor room with moulded ceiling beams and cornice (V.C.H.) but this was not inspected at time of survey (July 1985). It has been suggested (V.C.H.) that the house was formerly U-shaped and that the south front may have been of 5 bays. There is known to have been a house on the site in 1665. V.C.H., Vol. VIII, p. 226.

Listing NGR: SJ4133513736

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Sources

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Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Shropshire, (1908), 226

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