69 AND 70

BERRINGTON C.P. CANTLOP SJ 50 NW 3/56 Nos. 69 and 70 - II -

Farmhouse, now divided. Probably C17 with mid-C19 addition. Rendered timber frame with rendered addition, probably over brick; plain tile roof. 2 framed bays with Tudor Gothic addition to north- east forming T-plan. 2 storeys and attic. External brick end stacks with square shafts and oversailing tops, and brick ridge stack to earlier wing at rear with oversailing top. 2-window front; wooden cross windows with moulded architraves and returned hoodmould; central 6-panelled door (top 4 raised, bottom 2 flush) with 3-part rectangular overlight,moulded architrave, and cornice. Rear wing, north-west front: 2 gabled full dormers with 2-light C20 casements and plain barge boards. 3-windows to first floor, mid-C19 paired glazing bar sash to right with dripmould and one-and 3-light C20 wooden casements to left; ground floor mid-C19 three-light wooden casement off-centre to left with returned hoodmould and C20 two-light wooden casement to right with mid-C19 drip- mould; door between windows off-centre to right with 6 flush panels (top 2 glazed), plain architrave, and cornice; C20 half-glazed door to left. Interior; No. 69: roof trusses and purlins; attic staircase has chamfered newel post and globe finial; ground-floor late C18 or early C19 corner buffet; C19 or C18 two-panelled doors; the old plan survives with the stack backing onto a cross passage; No. 70: mid-C19 dog-leg staircase with rectangular-section balusters, moulded ramped handrail and turned bottom newel post. V.C.H. Vol. VIII, p. 17.

Listing NGR: SJ5226505761