Description

KENN KENN
SX 98 NW

2/297 Fern Cottage
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GV II

Cottage, originally part of a larger house. Mid C17 or earlier. Whitewashed and
rendered, probably stone and cob ; thatched roof, half-hipped at right end, hipped
to end of rear wing ; stack with brick shaft at junction between main block and rear
wing.
Plan: 1 room wide, 2 rooms deep, the principal room at the front with a smaller
service room in a rear wing. C20 lean-to adjoins at right end, entrance into
principal room through lean-to. Possibly the lower end or inner room of a 2 or 3
room plan house.
Exterior: 2 storeys. 1 window front with 1 ground floor metal-framed C20 window. The
rear elevation has a first floor 2-light C17 mullioned window with chamfered mullions
and C18 or C19 small-pane casements.
Interior: The principal room (to the front) has a chamfered axial beam (stops
possibly concealed in wall plaster) and a red sandstone fireplace with a timber
lintel and brick-lined bread oven.
Roof: C20 roof trusses but 2 boxed-in curved timbers (truncated in the roof space)
are probably a jointed cruck roof truss.

Listing NGR: SX9196885493

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26618648

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)