Fernhill Hall

Fernhill Hall is a small country house built around 1820 to 1830, with later additions and alterations. It is constructed of sandstone ashlar and features a hipped slate roof with a central open well and two ashlar ridge stacks positioned to the left and right of the center.

The house has two storeys and is designed with a 1:1:1 bay arrangement, where the central section slightly projects and is topped with a pediment. The windows are glazing bar sashes, consisting of 15 panes and extending to the ground on the ground floor, all with plain wedge lintels. The central entrance features a contemporary half-glazed door beneath a plain tetrastyle Tuscan portico with a simple entablature.

On the left side, there is a 1:3:1 bay arrangement, with the central section forming a full-height canted bay that was once topped by a balustrade, remnants of which can still be found in the garden to the southwest. The glazing bar sashes here include tripartite windows on the ground floor with pedimented heads, extending to the ground in the outer bays, and shaped wooden window canopies above the canted bay, which has a contemporary French window at its center. The rear of the house features four glazing bar sashes on each floor.

Attached to the right corner of the entrance front is a small hip-roofed brick service building, which has two glazing bar sashes on its front.

Inside, there is an open-well staircase located in the rear right corner of the entrance hall, illuminated by a lantern. This staircase has a moulded wreathed handrail and decorated cast-iron balusters that continue as a balustrade to the first floor, complemented by a plaster frieze below. The rooms to the left and right of the entrance hall are adorned with decorated plaster friezes and moulded cornices. A marble fireplace is present in the ground floor room of the canted bay, and several first-floor rooms also feature marble fireplaces, some with cast-iron grates, along with moulded plaster cornices. Throughout the house, there are panelled doors and window shutters. A back staircase of dog-leg type with turned newel-posts and stick balusters is also present. It is noted that service buildings, which were formerly attached to the right return, are said to have been demolished in the 1930s.