OLD FORD

OLD FORD, NEW ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1200933
Date first listed:: 08-Nov-1949
List Entry Name:: OLD FORD
Statutory Address:: OLD FORD, NEW ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1200933
Date first listed:: 08-Nov-1949
Date of most recent amendment:: 19-Apr-1993
List Entry Name:: OLD FORD
Statutory Address 1:: OLD FORD, NEW ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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Location

Statutory Address:: OLD FORD, NEW ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Devon
District:: Torridge (District Authority)
Parish:: Bideford
National Grid Reference:: SS4531025908

Details

BIDEFORD

SS42NE NEW ROAD 842-1/2/201 (West side) 08/11/49 Old Ford (Formerly Listed as: NEW ROAD Old Ford House)

II*

Formerly known as: Ford Farm. Detached house: probably a gentleman's house converted to a farmhouse in C19. Late medieval, possibly C14, with added medieval cross-wing; extended in late C16; cross-wing remodelled and further extended in late C17 or very early C18. Stone rubble. Slate roof, the cross-wing hipped at the front. Old red-brick chimneys on left gable-wall of hall, and on both gable-walls of cross-wing. C16 stone-rubble chimney with tapered cap on right gable-wall. Plan: single-storeyed late-medieval hall (now lofted) with through-passage at right-hand end. To right, separated by a thick wall, a late-medieval cross-wing projecting front and back; contains C17/C18 staircase with contemporary parlour in front and service-room behind; addition at rear, probably a C17/C18 kitchen. On right-hand side, at right-angles to cross-wing, a late C16 parlour-range, converted to salting-house probably in C19. To left of hall, beyond rebuilt gable-wall, a converted barn of C16 or C17. Hall single-storeyed with loft; remainder 2-storeyed with semi-basement below front of cross-wing. Hall has doorway to right with 2-panelled C18 door. Sash-window to left set in a partly-blocked opening; 12 over 8 panes. Above doorway a gabled dormer with plain bargeboards; 2-light wood casement with 2 panes per light. Buttress at left-hand end. Converted barn to left has 2 windows per storey; all with segmental stone arches and fixed 4-pane wood sashes. Cross-wing has buttress at each side of gable; blocked window in each storey; plank door in basement with plain wood frame. Sash-windows in both side-walls and in front of C16 addition, the wider ones with margin-panes; upper-storey windows rise slightly above eaves-level and have pent-roofs. In rear wall of hall a 4-light limestone window with flat-splay mullions (2 missing) and straight hood-mould; probably partly restored in C19. Rear wall of cross-wing has 2-light wood-mullioned window: ogee mullions, later 9-paned wood casements. In gable a stone plaque inscribed WC 1733. Flanking chimneybreast in gable-wall of C16 addition are 2 second-storey slit windows, the sharply-pointed openings cut from single pieces of wood. INTERIOR: hall has late medieval smoke-blackened roof with 2 raised-cruck trusses on wooden pads; chamfered arch-braces, cranked collars, butt-purlins, square-set ridge, windbraces; left truss has blades with tops scarfed above the collar. At passage-end a stud-and-panel screen, the studs chamfered and with diagonal-cut stops. Above it a chamber projecting into the hall where it has a late C16 or early C17 ovolo-moulded bressumer with step-stops. In rear wall a fireplace with cambered chamfered wood lintel. In left gable-wall a large, later segmental-headed fireplace. Through-passage has rear doorway with boxed segmental-headed arch. In right wall an unglazed borrowed light into service-room: 2-light ovolo-moulded wood frame with original lattice-work. In cross-wing C17/C18 wood stair leads off passage: single flight branching off left and right at the top; closed strings, turned balusters, moulded handrail, square newels with flat moulded caps; against wall at top a moulded skirting with ogee-moulded profile to match each tread. Ground-floor front room of cross-wing has complete C17/C18 panelled room; raised bolection-moulded panels; wood bolection-moulded chimneypiece with C19 enriched iron grate; 2 round-headed cupboards with shaped shelves; shutters with ovolo-moulded raised-and-fielded shutters; coved cornice. Rear ground-floor room has only a plain unchamfered ceiling-beam. Cross-wing roof is a lighter version of that over hall, also with 2 trusses; no smoke-blackening; angled ridge; bird's mouthed collars forming intermediate trusses. C16 addition has chamfered beams with scroll-stops; remains of dado with moulded rail and skirting; solid granite trough, probably for salting meat or fish with 2 compartments. Room above has late C16 stone chimneypiece: Tudor-arched with ogee, hollow and half-round mouldings and urn-stops; frieze of roundels and lozenges filled with flowers and fleurs-de-lis. Original roof-trusses with straight feet. The house also contains several early doors, either with raised-and-fielded ovolo-moulded panels or simple vertical planks. Converted barn (which probably had a domestic function originally) has chamfered beams with step-stops and chamfered joists with run-out stops. Old roof-timbers include one blade of a raised cruck with threaded purlins. Old Ford is remarkable as a well-preserved medieval hall-and-cross-wing house, a type very rare in Devon, particularly at vernacular level. It is believed to have adjoined an early fording-place on the River Torridge, and has been suggested as the former Manor-house of the Grenville family. The Bideford Community Archive has floor-plans and sections (not entirely accurate). (Bideford Community Archive: Plans and elevations; Goaman M: Old Bideford and District: Bristol: 1968-: P.19; Pridham TL: Devonshire Celebrities: Exeter: 1869-: P.105).

Listing NGR: SS4531025908

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 375902
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Goaman, M, Old Bideford and District, (1968), 19
Pridham, T L, Devonshire Celebrities, (1869), 105

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.