Bareppa House

Bareppa House is a small country house dating from around the early 18th century, with deeds indicating a presence by 1720. The front and rear walls are stuccoed, while the remaining surfaces are painted rubble. The roof is covered with scantle slates, incorporating some original handmade crested clay ridge tiles. Cast-iron gutters with ogee sections and lions' heads at the joints are also original features.

The house follows a double-depth plan, with the rear rooms remodelled around the early 19th century to create a new entrance front. The original front comprises two rooms of similar size flanking the original entrance hall; the room on the right is an unaltered original parlour, while the room on the left was converted into a kitchen in the 19th century and retains most of its fittings from that period. The original entrance hall leads to an early 19th-century stair hall, with the two rear rooms on each side converted into parlours at the same time. Service wings of shallower depth were added in the 19th century on both sides of the house; the left-hand wing is now converted into self-contained accommodation known as Beau Repair.

The north-east front presents a symmetrical façade of five windows, all with original circa early 18th-century 16-pane sashes and wide glazing bars. The central doorway features a pair of circa late 19th-century top-glazed doors, set within a wooden doorcase that is likely early 19th century. The stucco work on the plinth and walls is also probably from the early 19th century. The rear entrance front features a circa early 19th-century door and windows, including a tall 24-pane stair sash and 16-pane sashes.

Inside, the original front rooms—excluding the kitchen—retain their original 18th-century features. The parlour has full-height ovolo-moulded raised and fielded panelling, an eared chimney-piece, and a dentilled ceiling cornice. Original two-panel doors are fitted with HL hinges throughout the rooms. On the first floor, a dressing room provides access from both reception rooms and the landing. The rear of the house largely displays early 19th-century features, with floors raised at the same time. The reception room on the rear right has a moulded plaster ceiling band and what is presumably a resited 18th-century eared chimney-piece with a pulvinated frieze. The open-well staircase has a carved open string, carved tread ends, a mahogany handrail, and stick balusters. The chambers on the first floor have early 19th-century chimney-pieces with roundels in the corner blocks. A round-headed niche with shaped shelves is found in the rear left-hand chamber. The roof structure has not been inspected but is possibly of 18th-century origin.

Bareppa House contains good quality features from both the early 18th and early 19th centuries, and the 19th-century remodelling presents an interesting compromise between adaptation and complete rebuilding.