Fernyleas

Fernyleas is a farmhouse dating to around 1600, with later additions and alterations. It is timber framed with painted brick infill, and has a plinth, along with machine tile and slate roofing. The main range consists of framed bays with a central baffle-entry, featuring three gables to the rear and two to the right, dating to the 17th century, with a further gable added in the mid-18th century. The two-storey main range has gable-lit attics. The framing of the main range consists of square panels, five from sill to wall-plate (two lower panels replaced with brick to the front), with jowled wall posts and long straight tension braces to the gable ends. These are slightly jettied to the attic, with projecting double-purlin ends; the positions of former three-light mullion windows are visible on the ground and first floors of the right gable end. Similar framing is present on the rear gables, also with hewn jettying to the top storey and jowled wall posts to the centre gable. The left gable is constructed of red brick and includes a continuous floor band. The front façade has two windows: late 19th-century three-light casements to the first floor and early 20th-century three-light windows to the ground floor. Gabled dormers are located directly above these windows, in the middle of the roof slope. The central entrance features a 19th-century boarded door under a contemporary gabled hood. A red brick ridge stack, rebuilt in the mid-20th century, stands immediately to the left. Internally, the timber frame is partially exposed. There are chamfered and moulded ceiling beams in both ground and first-floor rooms. A massive stack contains a partly infilled inglenook fireplace with a chamfered wooden lintel to the left ground-floor room, and a 17th-century stone fireplace with a segmental arch to the right ground-floor room. This room also has an inset 18th-century oak wall cupboard with a pilastered round-headed arch to the back wall, and a 17th-century panelled door leading to the centre gable. An oak dog-leg staircase to the right of the stack has a moulded handrail on the first floor. Plank and muntin doors with fleur-de-lys pointed strap hinges are found throughout the property, including to the attic, where the brick stepping of the stack is visible. The main range has a collar and tie beam roof in three bays with double purlins and straight windbraces; a similar roof in two bays is present in the centre gable.