Lower Farmhouse

BERRICK SALOME

SU69SW 4/10 18/07/63

Lower Farmhouse (Formerly listed as Lower Berrick Farmhouse)

GV II

Large farmhouse. Probably C15, extended and remodelled c.1600. Coursed clunch rubble with brick dressings; old plain-tile roof with brick stacks. 3-unit through-passage plan with rear wing and stair tower. 2 storeys plus attics. 5-window front, with moulded brick plinth and 4 gables, has 2 entrances, segmental-arched C19 sashes to left and centre, and 2-light renewed casements, to right and at first floor. Left doorway has a projecting brick surround with a chamfered Tudor arch, recessed spandrels and a moulded cornice. Right doorway retains a moulded cornice over a C19 segmental arch. Roof has large renewed stacks to right of centre and at left end. Right end wall returning to rear wing is double gabled with one original wood-mullioned gable window. Rear has three 2-light brick-mullion windows with labels; plus some wooden casements. Hipped roofed single-storey bay against left end has a blocked light with label, at the rear and may have been higher. Interior: back-to-back open fireplaces; intersecting chamfered beams; timber-framed internal walls; open-well stair, with very large turned pine balusters and knob finials, rising to attics. Roof has heavy curved windbraces and, between the 2 right bays, there is a C15 arch-braced collar truss springing from octagonal feet, with curved upper struts. Probably a timber-framed 2-bay open hall.

Listing NGR: SU6195393950