Fern Cottage, Monkton Farleigh, Wiltshire, BA15 (Grade II)

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

2/120 No 74 (Fern Cottage)

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.