Description:This plan is of Fern Cottage, Trentham parish workhouse. Parish workhouses began in the 17th and 18th centuries as places where the poor worked in return for food and board. The workhouses were frequently set up in rented premises and often only existed for a few years.
Diagrams (clockwise from top):
- Front of building
- Side of building
- Site plan showing the position of the garden, Fern Cottage, the yards, the stables, the outhouses and the workhouse.
- Back of building
This diagram was created in 1982 during the Stoke-on-Trent Historic Building Survey and is reproduced by kind permission of HMSO.