Fern Cottage And Fernside

SNITTERFIELD

SP25NW SMITHS LANE 1457-1/9/114 (South West side) 07/03/97 Fern Cottage and Fernside

GV II

2 houses. C17 with earlier C19 alterations and addition. Timber-frame with brick infill on stone-coped brick plinth; thatch roof with brick end stack with cap and cruciform cross-axial stack. 3-unit plan with rear wing. EXTERIOR: single-storey with attic; 3-window range. Entrance to right of centre in C19 gabled open timber porch, now glazed and with C20 glazed outer door. Ground floor has 2 square windows to left of porch with moulded sills, and heavy cornices over 2-light glazing with iron opening casements; large early C20 hipped bay window with 1:4:1-light transomed casements with leaded glazing; first floor has 3 eyebrow dormers, 2 to left with windows as those below them, one to right has similar casement but no sill or cornice. Gabled roof. Returns are brick; right return has wall posts, braced collar and V-struts; entrance in porch as to front (but unglazed), to right of 3-light double-chamfered mullioned window; C20 casement above; wing has flat roof. INTERIOR: noted as having some exposed beams and joists. An example of an estate cottage improved in the C19.

Listing NGR: SP2143959711