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Fern Cottage

A Grade II Listed Building in Kenn, Devon

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.6591 / 50°39'32"N

Longitude: -3.5298 / 3°31'47"W

OS Eastings: 291968

OS Northings: 85493

OS Grid: SX919854

Mapcode National: GBR P1.F66M

Mapcode Global: FRA 37HB.GP7

Plus Code: 9C2RMF5C+J3

Entry Name: Fern Cottage

Listing Date: 2 December 1988

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1333939

English Heritage Legacy ID: 85850

ID on this website: 101333939

Location: Kenn, Teignbridge, Devon, EX6

County: Devon

District: Teignbridge

Civil Parish: Kenn

Traditional County: Devon

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Devon

Church of England Parish: Kenn St Andrew

Church of England Diocese: Exeter

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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

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