Fern House

Fern House is a house, originally built around 1780 as a workhouse and later adapted as a lace factory. It was remodelled around 1900. The building is colourwashed render with a hipped roof covered in old tiles, with a lower section re-tiled and featuring sprocketed eaves that sit over flat wooden eaves with unmoulded modillions. There are three rendered chimneys, two on the right side, each topped with cornice caps. The house is double pile with an early 20th century wing attached to the northeast corner. It has two storeys and an attic, arranged over four bays. The windows are paired, barred wooden casements set in rendered architraves with keyblocks, and their sills rest upon triglyph brackets. The outer bays have windows with segmental heads in the lower section. Four gabled dormers light the attic. A single-storey projection from around 1900 is centrally positioned, featuring a moulded wooden cornice, a five-light barred wooden casement window, and a door to the left. The door has an architrave surround and a segmental wooden hood supported by scroll brackets. The right side of the house includes a circa 1900 bay window, a loggia, and a projecting wing that was formerly a billiard room. The interior was also extensively remodelled around 1900.