Fernside

Fernside is a house with a probable 17th-century core, but it was heavily remodelled and refronted in the 18th century. The facade is painted brick, while the rear is constructed of stone rubble with lath and plaster. It has a thatched roof, hipped at the right end, and brick shafts to a tall rear lateral stack and a tall, rendered stack with offsets to the gable end of the rear wing.

The original plan likely featured a single principal room heated by the rear lateral stack to the right of the entrance passage. A stone outshut contains the stairs, situated behind the stack and enclosed by a two-storey, single-room-plan rear kitchen wing, with a 20th-century lean-to at the rear of the passage extending to the left of Devon House. Later alterations have obscured the original layout, but a blocked doorway on the upper storey suggests that Fernside and Devon House were once connected on the left side, and the shared brick facade indicates possible single ownership in the 18th century. It is possible that the core plan is 17th century, with Fernside comprising the parlour end, and Devon House the hall and lower end of a three-room and through-passage plan, with both principal rooms (hall and parlour) heated by rear lateral stacks. The 18th-century remodelling likely involved raising the height of the structure by adding a second storey and rebuilding the facades in brick.

The exterior is three storeys high and has a two-window range. The upper two storeys retain early 19th-century fenestration, with 16-pane sashes, those to the first storey having slightly cambered brick arches. A brick plat band is positioned between the first two storeys. The ground floor has two four-pane sashes to the right of the doorway, with a 20th-century four-panelled door, the upper two panels glazed.

Internally, the house was largely altered in the 20th century. The ceiling of the principal room has slight coving. The rear kitchen wing fireplace has a timber lintel with diagonally cut stops. The roof structure was largely replaced in 1986, but surviving 18th-century trusses have straight principals and pegged lapped collars.