From his childhood, Spencer 'lived in the High Street in a house called Fernlea (now called Fernley), an ugly, gaunt-looking byilding of three storeys, attached on one side to is replica, called Belmont, and divided on the other by a narrow passage from an ivy-covered cottage called The Nest. In front was a garden patch, a privet hedge and a railing'
(M. Collis, Stanley Spencer A Biography, London, 1962, p.18)