Fern Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Teignbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1988. A 17th century Cottage.
Fern Cottage
- WRENN ID
- stranded-rampart-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Teignbridge
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1988
- Type
- Cottage
- Period
- 17th century
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
KENN KENN SX 98 NW
2/297 Fern Cottage -
GV II
Cottage, originally part of a larger house. Mid C17 or earlier. Whitewashed and rendered, probably stone and cob ; thatched roof, half-hipped at right end, hipped to end of rear wing ; stack with brick shaft at junction between main block and rear wing. Plan: 1 room wide, 2 rooms deep, the principal room at the front with a smaller service room in a rear wing. C20 lean-to adjoins at right end, entrance into principal room through lean-to. Possibly the lower end or inner room of a 2 or 3 room plan house. Exterior: 2 storeys. 1 window front with 1 ground floor metal-framed C20 window. The rear elevation has a first floor 2-light C17 mullioned window with chamfered mullions and C18 or C19 small-pane casements. Interior: The principal room (to the front) has a chamfered axial beam (stops possibly concealed in wall plaster) and a red sandstone fireplace with a timber lintel and brick-lined bread oven. Roof: C20 roof trusses but 2 boxed-in curved timbers (truncated in the roof space) are probably a jointed cruck roof truss.
Listing NGR: SX9196885493
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