In the title compound, [Fe(C5H5)(C14H13O)], the plane of the heterocyclic ring is almost perpendicular to the plane of the substituted cyclopentadienyl ring, and the heterocyclic ring adopts a half-chair conformation. The conformation of the nearly parallel cyclopentadienyl (Cp) rings [the dihedral angle between their planes is 2.7 (1)degrees] is almost halfway between eclipsed and staggered, and the rings are mutually twisted by about 19.4 (2)degrees (mean value). The mean lengths of the C - C bonds in the substituted and unsubstituted cyclopentadienyl ring are 1.420 (2) and 1.406 (3) Angstrom, respectively, and the Fe - C distances range from 2.029 (2) to 2.051 (2) Angstrom. The phenyl and unsubstituted cyclopentadienyl rings are involved in C - H ...pi interactions, with intermolecular H ...centroid distances of 2.85 and 3.14 Angstrom for C - H ...pi(Ph), and 2.88 Angstrom for C - H ...pi(Cp). In two of these interactions, the C - H bond points towards one of the ring bonds rather than towards the ring centroid. In the crystal structure, the C - H ...pi interactions connect the molecules into a three-dimensional framework.