Upper Berrow Farmhouse

REDDITCH B BERROWHILL LANE (east side) SO 96 SE 3/19 Upper Berrow Farmhouse

GV II

Farmhouse, now house. Cl7, remodelled mid-C18, altered mid-C19 with further alterations and additions c1973. Part timber-framed with brick and rendered infill; part brick; plain tiled roofs. L-plan; main two-bay range aligned roughly east/west and largely of C18 brick; intersecting cross-wing of two framed bays (south one now mainly brick) has large external sandstone and brick chimney with tiled offsets and detached brick stack at the gabled east side of its north bay; also C18 stack at its south gable end. Partly two storeys and attic with dormer, partly single storey and attic with four- course band between storeys at rear; dentilled eaves cornice. Framing: cross- wing has four panels from sill to wall-plate, short straight braces in upper corners and collar and tie-beam trusses with struts; V-strut in apex at north gable end. Windows are C20 leaded casements. North front elevation: main part has a ground floor 2-light and a first floor 3-light window; both have cambered heads; gabled dormer with 2-light casement; main entrance to left has lean-to canopy on a shaped bracket (which continues above the adjacent window) and a C20 door with a cambered head; tall stack to mid-roof pitch between bays; from right bay projects a C20 wing with a 3-light ground floor and a 2-light first floor window; 2-light first floor window in angle. Cross-wing gable end has two 2-light and a single-light window on the ground floor and two attic lights. Interior of north bay of cross-wing has substantial part of framing intact and a large fireplace. Small C20 addition to rear of cross-wing and also C20 single-storey two-bay wing to east side linking the building with the adjacent house (qv), formerly a barn.

Listing NGR: SO9920062944