Ferndale the Cot

Two cottages, Ferndale and Ferndene, date from the 17th and early 18th centuries. They are built with painted render over rubble stone, with a continuous slate roof. A brick stack is located on the right gable end and a front lateral stack is finished in brick. Originally likely a single property divided into three units, they are now two cottages; Ferndale is the left property. The rear of Ferndale features a right wing. The cottages are two storeys high with a four-window front. Ferndale has a broad, shallow lateral stack to the right-of-centre, flanked by 19th-century two-light casement windows on the first floor. A three-light casement window occupies the ground floor to the right, and a divided 18th-century six-panel door is situated under a hood supported by metal scroll brackets to the left. A full-height wall with stone coping returns to meet the neighbouring property, No. 9, and features a doorway with similar voussoirs and quoins to that house, leading to a 17th-century planked and studded door. Ferndene has two 19th-century two-light casement windows on each floor, and a 19th-century trellised porch leads to a lean-to entrance. Internally, Ferndale displays hollow-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops to the sides and centre of both the main and rear rooms, as well as exposed main rafter ends on the first floor. Historically, the property was a malthouse in 1841, and is believed to have been the Britannia Inn in 1701.