Feering Hill House St Andrews

FEERING FEERING HILL TL 8619-8719 (north-west side)

8/97 No. 15 (St. Andrews) 23.9.81 and No. 15A (Feering Hill House) (formerly listed as No. 15 (Feering Hill House and St. Andrews)

GV II

House, now divided into 2. Circa 1700, extensively altered c.1800 and in late C19. Red brick in Flemish bond with blue and gault headers, partly plastered, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. Main range facing SE, with internal stack at right end and rear stack near left end. 2 adjacent rear wings with 2 stacks between then, completing a square plan. Late C19 gabled extension to front of right end, and late C19 in-line extension at left end, with C20 flat-roofed 2-storey extension to rear, and pantiled single-storey lean-to extension beyond. 2 storeys with attics. The SE (street) elevation has on the ground floor 2 late C19 sashes of 2 lights in earlier apertures with flat arches and projecting voussoirs of gauged brick, and 3 similar windows on the first floor. The C19 extension has a 2-storey square bay of casements. C19 casement in gabled dormer. Half-glazed door with C20 flat canopy. Ovolo-moulded band at first-floor level; and ovolo-moulded eaves cornice. Many blue headers are present on the ground floor and extending a little above the band, with headers of gault brick above. At ground and first floor are monograms incised in large red clay tablets, illegible. The right return, now the entrance elevation of no. 15A (Feering Hill House) has on the ground floor 2 early C19 sashes of 10 + 15 lights with original flush 4-panel external shutters, and on the first floor 2 early C19 sashes of 8 + 8 lights, all in shallow segmental arches, and a round window with crossed glazing bars. One C20 glazed door, and one half-glazed door at rear of C20 semi-circular porch. Dentilled eaves cornice. No. 15A (Feering Hill House) has C18 pine panelling in the front ground-floor room, and in the room above it. Posts supporting an axial beam in the middle ground-floor room (or entrance hall) have been carved with shields and scallops in the C20. No. 15 (St. Andrews) has C18 folding shutters in 2 front ground-floor windows. RCHM 29.

Listing NGR: TL8672719372