The Ferns

The Ferns is a house that was formerly known as The Trooper Public House, located on High Street in Buckingham. It likely dates from the 17th century but has older origins. The building was raised and refronted in the early 19th century and has undergone alterations in the 20th century. It is timber-framed with a front made of red brick in Flemish bond, a slate roof, and brick end stacks, forming an L-plan. The structure is two stories high with a three-window range. There is a central door from the 20th century, flanked by canted bay windows. The first floor features 16-pane sash windows on either side of a central shuttered blank window.

At the rear left, there is a one-storey and attic wing. Inside, the ground floor of the front range has a central through passage with a room on either side. One of these rooms contains ogee stop-chamfered spine beams and a corner fireplace. There is also a stone cellar with a spine beam and a possible cruck truss. The roof has one tier of purlins and has been raised at the front. The wing is timber-framed with small square panels and features an old three-light window visible in the 20th-century passage. The wing also has stop-chamfered spine beams on the ground floor and a room with an inglenook fireplace that includes a cambered, stop-chamfered bressumer.