Fernbank, Main Street, Allanton

Fernbank is a mid-19th century building that has seen later additions and alterations. It consists of single-storey, six-bay terraced cottages, with the Old School House at the northern end of the terrace. The structure is built from stugged squared and snecked ashlar, featuring droved ashlar dressings, while the rear of the Old School House is constructed from rubble. The building displays slightly raised long and short quoins, chamfered margins, and Tudor hoodmoulds above the openings.

On the east elevation facing the street, the spacing of the three bays to the right is irregular, with the rightmost bay being broader. Each three-bay group has a panelled door at the centre with a fanlight above it; the door in the left three-bay group features a two-pane fanlight. Above the doors, there are gabled windows that break the eaves, with a window in each flanking bay.

The west elevation includes a full-height addition at the centre of the northern three-bay group, which is the Old School House, along with a further single-storey, half-piended addition. There is a two-leaf panelled door with a two-pane rectangular fanlight on the outer left of the northern return elevation. A single-storey addition is also present in the centre of the southern three-bay group.

The building features a variety of windows, including plate glass timber sash and case windows in the Old School House, and four-pane windows in the left three-bay group, with one upper pane having a hopper. The roof is covered with slate, incorporating ornamental fishscale slates arranged in bands. There is a brick mutual stack to the south and between the cottages, a two-flue brick gablehead stack to the north, and a three-flue brick gablehead stack on the rear addition. The northern gable and eaves are adorned with ornamental bargeboarding, while the dormerheads have plain bargeboarding.

The interiors were not seen during the last inspection in 1996.