Berwick Farmhouse

Berwick Farmhouse is a house dating from the mid-14th century, with alterations made in the 16th and 20th centuries. It is timber framed and plastered, with a roof covered in handmade red clay tiles. The house features a two-bay hall facing southwest, which includes a late 16th-century axial stack in the left bay, a service bay to the left, and a two-bay parlour or solar crosswing to the right. There is a late 16th-century two-bay extension at the rear of the crosswing, along with a late 16th-century lean-to stair extension in the rear angle. A 19th-century extension is located to the right of the crosswing, which has a stack in the intermediate wall, and a 20th-century single-storey extension at the rear of it.

The hall range is one storey with attics, while the remainder of the house is two storeys. The ground floor has four 20th-century sash windows, and the first floor features two 20th-century casements, one additional casement in a gabled dormer (which was under construction at the time of the survey in January 1985), and one 20th-century sash in another gabled dormer. The crosswing is jettied at the front and fully plastered. Inside the hall, there is a chamfered ogee doorhead (which is mutilated) and wide display bracing in the right wall, along with a large wood-burning hearth. The mantel beam is chamfered with lamb's tongue stops, and there is a late 16th-century inserted floor that includes a chamfered axial beam and chamfered joists of horizontal section, all featuring lamb's tongue stops and supported on pegged clamps. Originally, the service bay was unstoreyed but now has a rebuilt softwood floor and an early 19th-century semi-circular cupboard. The crosswing has plain joists of large horizontal section.

Both sections of the house have crownpost roofs, with the central crownpost of the hall being octagonal in section and having a moulded base and cap, along with four-way bracing (though the axial braces are missing) and heavily smoke-blackened rafters and collars. There is wide axial bracing in the crosswing. The rear extension features close studding with straight braces trenched to the inside, a blocked unglazed window in the upper right wall with mortices for three diamond mullions, and a clasped purlin roof. The stair extension also has close studding.