Fernhall Farmhouse And Adjoining Cowhouse

BRILLEY CP - SO 25 SE 2/4 Fernhall Farmhouse and adjoining cowhouse GV II Farmhouse, once divided into three tenements, and adjoining cowhouse. Late C14/early C15, altered probably C17, late C18, mid-C19 and restored late C20. Timber-framed with painted brick infill on rubble base, painted brick and rubble replacement walling and refacing with stone-tiled roof laid in diminishing courses and large rubble ridge stack (part rebuilt in brick); also brick stack at north-east end. Cruck hall-house of two framed bays aligned north-east/south-west with cross-wings originally at both ends. South-west wing has an external rubble chimney adjoining its south elevation. The main roof has now been continued over the north-east cross-wing and the hall had a large central chimney and ceiling inserted in C17. Single storey and attic with dormers. Framing: three panels from sill to wall-plate (only upper row of panels visible to front); cross-wing has collar and tie-beam trusses with struts with V-struts above the collar (swept V-strut to front). North-west front elevation: main range has a 3-light, a 2-light and a single- light ground floor leaded casement, three raking-top dormers with 2-light latticed casements and three doors, two of them being partly glazed. The cross-wing gable end has a ground floor 3-light casement, a 4-light attic window with latticed casements and a plank weathering and a partly-glazed door with flanking square leaded lights. There is a lean-to outshut with a catslide roof to the rear north-east end. Interior: hall is recorded to retain its central cruck truss which has a collar and three cusped openings above the collar; there were also cusped braces below the collar. The end trusses are also said to survive and there is a large fireplace in the south- west bay. Cowhouse adjoins north-east end. C17. Timber-framed and weather-. boarded with stone-tiled roof laid in diminishing courses. Three framed bays. Single storey. There are two doors and a large opening in the north-west elevation. Interior: wall-framing has two panels from sill to wall-plate and short straight braces across the lower corners. The roof has a collar and tie- beam truss with three struts and a V-strut above the collar at the west end, and two intermediate and a south-west end king-post truss; two tiers of trenched purlins. (RCHM, III, p 24, item 4; BoE, p 86: Alcock, N W: CBA Cruck Catalogue, 1981).

Listing NGR: SO2778551476