Brereworth Manor

Brereworth Manor is a farmhouse, now a house, dating to the later 17th century, with additions and alterations in the 18th century. It is constructed of coursed sandstone rubble with some quoins, and has a slate roof. The building has an L-shaped plan, consisting of a two-bay baffle-entry farmhouse with an early extension to its left, and a later two-bay wing to the front of the second bay. Shallow rear outshuts are present to the second bay and the rear of the left end.

The two-storey front has a blocked former doorway to the left end of the original first bay, featuring a moulded surround and large rectangular lintel. An inserted door is located to the left of the blocked doorway, with a blocked first-floor doorway above it. At ground floor, there is a recessed four-light window with hollow-moulded mullions and a hoodmould. Above this is a three-light flush mullion window. To the right of the former doorway are altered three-light windows on each floor. The left gable has a small blocked square opening at ground floor and two at attic level, alongside modern three-light windows on each floor. The right gable has a long recessed mullion window on each floor; the lower window has five lights and the upper window was formerly six lights with a king mullion, but now lacks three mullions, both being topped with hoodmoulds. The rear elevation features a similar five-light window at ground floor of a set-back centre, with a continuous dripstone above it, and a similar three-light window at ground floor of the second bay. The eaves appear to have been raised at the rear. The 18th-century wing to the front is less significant.

The interior has been altered in the 18th century, but retains a 17th-century stone heck and two moulded beams. These beams incorporate scarf joints in the position of a former bressummer. A stone fireplace on the ground floor has panelled jambs and lintel with a false keystone and fluted frieze; a similarly styled fireplace with corbelled jambs and segmental lintel is located in the added first bay.