Berry House

Berry House is a house that was formerly an inn, dating from the late 17th century, with extensions made in the late 18th century and a front remodelled in the mid to late 19th century. The building is constructed of stone rubble and is rendered on the front, with rendered end stacks.

The layout features a two-room plan with a through passage, which was extended to the rear in the late 18th century. This extension includes a lean-to outshot that houses a dairy on the rear left and a kitchen on the rear right. The house is two storeys tall with a regular three-window front that was remodelled in the mid to late 19th century. The central entrance features a four-panelled door, with an eight-pane sash window to the left and a four-pane sash window to the right. On the first floor, there are three early 19th-century hornless sash windows, with a narrower sash window in the centre.

The rear elevation is attractive and largely unaltered, featuring a single-storey lean-to outshot beneath a cat-slide roof, and a triangular dormer window near the centre that has a two-centred arch light and intersecting glazing bars that illuminate the stairway.

Inside, there is a central through passage flanked by early 19th-century partitions. The left-hand room contains a 19th-century chimneypiece, while the right-hand room has a 20th-century fireplace. The 19th-century staircase is boxed in at the rear of the right-hand room, with the top stage lit by a stair window.