Fox Cottage, School House And Fern Cottage Littlecote School Cottages

SU 73 NW FARRINGDON UPPER FARRINGDON

2/62 Fox Cottage, Littlecote (No 2, School Cottages) School House and Fern Cottage

GV II

A row of 4 different cottages. C17, C18 and C20. At the east end Fern Cottage is a small 2-storeyed house of the C18, with a plain tiled roof, brick walls of Flemish bond with cambered ground-floor openings, one upper and 2 lower casements, and a boarded door in a plain frame. At the west end the largest and oldest unit is 1 storey and attic, 2 above 3 windows with a west end outshot; thatched roof with one eyebrow dormer, the lower part of the east side being tiled, with a gabled dormer. The walls have exposed massive timber framing, with plaster and brick (herringbone) infill, the east now mostly painted brickwork. Casements, and plain doors, the east side with a tiled canopy showing that this end of the former cottage has been made into a separate dwelling Littlecote). The middle building (old School House) was a hall school (1844 to 1925), but now has an upper floor with 3 dormers;the top part of the roof is thatched, with a central bellcote, the lower is tiled, with 3 flat-roofed dormers, the walls being C20 brickwork. Casements, and a doorway within a porch.

Listing NGR: SU7116735186