Description

ST 86 NW MONKTON FARLEIGH MONKTON FARLEIGH VILLAGE (east side)

2/120 No 74 (Fern Cottage)

GV II

Two cottages, now one house. C17, altered C19 and extended C20. Random rubble stone, double Roman tiled roof with gable end stone stacks. Two-storey, 3-window. Planked door to right of centre with C20 flat stone hood on brackets, 3-light cyma-mullioned casement with hoodmould to right, 2-light flush mullioned casement, glazed door and 3-light ovolo-mullioned casement to left. First floor has three 2-light C19 flush mullioned casements. Right return has 2-light C20 casement lighting stairs, glazed door to ground floor. Short wing to rear left, probably early C19, has 2- light flush mullioned casements, C20 parallel range attached to rear right. Interior: Room to right of entrance has restored chamfered Tudor- arched fireplace surround with winding stairs in left corner. First floor has chamfered elliptical-arched stone fireplace in south bedroom. Corn-drying oven formerly in lean-to extension to rear, recess on former external wall retained. Good moulded plank and muntin doors reset here during C20 renovations, said to be from an hotel in Burford.

Listing NGR: ST8050365418

External Links

• Wikidata Q26272694

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