Fern Cottage

Fern Cottage is a Grade II listed building that consists of two cottages now combined into one house. It dates from the 17th century, with alterations made in the 19th century and an extension added in the 20th century. The structure is built of random rubble stone and features a double Roman tiled roof with stone stacks at the gable ends.

The house is two storeys high with three windows on the front facade. There is a planked door located to the right of the centre, which is topped by a 20th-century flat stone hood supported by brackets. To the right of the door is a three-light cyma-mullioned casement with a hoodmould, followed by a two-light flush mullioned casement. To the left, there is a glazed door and a three-light ovolo-mullioned casement. On the first floor, there are three two-light 19th-century flush mullioned casements. The right side of the building has a two-light 20th-century casement that lights the stairs, along with a glazed door on the ground floor.

At the rear left, there is a short wing, likely from the early 19th century, which has two-light flush mullioned casements, and a 20th-century parallel range attached to the rear right. Inside, the room to the right of the entrance features a restored chamfered Tudor-arched fireplace surround and winding stairs in the left corner. The first floor includes a chamfered elliptical-arched stone fireplace in the south bedroom. There is also a corn-drying oven that was formerly in a lean-to extension at the rear, with a recess on the former external wall still retained. During 20th-century renovations, good moulded plank and muntin doors were reset here, which are said to have come from a hotel in Burford.