Description

SD 81 NE
3/64
25.10.1951

FERN HILL LANE
(north-west
side)

Fern Hill First
Farmhouse
(formerly listed
as Fern Hill under Fern Hill)

G.V.
II

Farmhouse. C18, with older wing "IMC: 1691" (John and M.
Crossley) on door lintel. Coursed rubble with stone
dressings and stone slate roof. 2-unit house of C18 date
with central entrance is built adjoining the C17 cross-
passage and cross-wing which is of 2 storeys and 2 rooms
deep with a steep stone stair rising between them. The 2-
bay C18 section formerly had 2 square cut flush mullioned
windows to each floor although no mullions still exist and
doorway has square-cut jambs and lintel. To the right is
the projecting single storey porch with accentuated ogee
shaped enriched lintel and round panel above: L coped gable
and kneelers. The crosswing has a stone plinth and quoins,
one 3-light double chamfered mullion window with hoodmould
to each floor. The upper was formerly of 5 lights, the
lower of 4, one being removed to insert a later door. Coped
gable and kneelers. The rear has three 2 and 3-light
windows with plain hoodmoulds.

Listing NGR: SD8725615353

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26367897

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Recommended Books

• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
• 
  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
• 
  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
• 
  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)