Higher Berrycourt Farmhouse

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ST 92 SW 7/30

DONHEAD ST. MARY Higher Berrycourt Farmhouse

II

Farmhouse. Late C18, altered late C19 and C20. Dressed limestone. Welsh slate roof, brick stacks. L-plan. Two-storey, four-window north front; sashes. Six-panelled door with egg and dart moulded panels and reveals with transom light to left of centre, large sixteen-pane sash either side and flush sixteen-pane sash to right. First floor has three reset early C18 twelve-pane sashes with thick glazing bars, one late C19 sash to right, roof has coped verges. Right return has C20 French windows and steel casements. Left return has twelve-pane sashes to C19 wing, C20 extension.

Rear has eight-pane sash, three-light casement and C20 two-storey porch, to left is C19 single-storey outhouse with hipped tiled roof, now part of house.

Interior has several features of early C18 including good six-panelled doors, very fine raised and fielded panelling to first floor corridor; all reputed to have been brought from Ashcombe House (q.v. Berwick St. John CP), which was partly demolished during mid C18.

Listing NGR: ST9245221438