Description

SU 73 NW FARRINGDON UPPER FARRINGDON

2/62 Fox Cottage, Littlecote (No 2,
School Cottages) School House and
Fern Cottage

GV II

A row of 4 different cottages. C17, C18 and C20. At the east end Fern Cottage
is a small 2-storeyed house of the C18, with a plain tiled roof, brick walls of
Flemish bond with cambered ground-floor openings, one upper and 2 lower casements,
and a boarded door in a plain frame. At the west end the largest and oldest unit
is 1 storey and attic, 2 above 3 windows with a west end outshot; thatched roof
with one eyebrow dormer, the lower part of the east side being tiled, with a gabled
dormer. The walls have exposed massive timber framing, with plaster and brick
(herringbone) infill, the east now mostly painted brickwork. Casements, and plain
doors, the east side with a tiled canopy showing that this end of the former
cottage has been made into a separate dwelling Littlecote). The middle building
(old School House) was a hall school (1844 to 1925), but now has an upper floor
with 3 dormers;the top part of the roof is thatched, with a central bellcote, the
lower is tiled, with 3 flat-roofed dormers, the walls being C20 brickwork.
Casements, and a doorway within a porch.

Listing NGR: SU7116735186

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26473992

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Recommended Books

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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)