Berry Cottage

Berry Cottage is a detached house dating to the late 16th and 17th centuries, situated on Bradley Lane in Holt. The original two-bay timber-framed section sits on a rubble stone plinth and has a thatched roof. A 17th-century addition was built to the south, constructed of rubble stone with a stone slate roof and stone stacks.

The house presents as a two-storey, four-window facade. A door with two vertical panels is set within a hipped slated porch to the left of the 17th-century range. To its right is a three-light, ovolo-mullioned casement window. The first floor has a two-light casement and a two-light ovolo-mullioned casement. The attic has a full gable with a two-light mullioned casement window; a former stack has been removed. The 16th-century range to the right has a three-light and two two-light ovolo-mullioned casements to the ground floor, and three two-light first-floor casements. The right return has a blocked doorway and window, as well as two-light mullioned casements to the ground floor and three two-light first-floor casements. There is also a two-light mullioned casement in the attic gable. The rear of the 17th-century range includes a single-light casement and a three-light mullioned casement to the left of a half-glazed door. A cylindrical stair turret features a 20th-century mullioned casement on the ground floor, a two-light attic window, a three-light mullioned first-floor casement, a three-light casement, and an attic gable with a two-light mullioned casement. The rear of the 16th-century range has two-light and four-light ground floor casements, a two-light first-floor casement, and a gabled dormer with a three-light casement. The timber frame of the 16th-century range has been rebuilt in rubble stone to the rear. The left return has a lean-to stone addition. An external stone and brick stack is visible at the gable end of the timber-framed range.

Internally, the 17th-century range has deep, chamfered beams, and retains part of an open fireplace on the front wall with a stone lintel on stone jambs. A room to the right of the entrance also has an open fireplace with a chamfered wooden lintel on stone jambs. The stair turret no longer contains a staircase from ground to first floor, although a winding stair remains from the first to the attic floor. The 16th-century range reveals a former external gable end wall between the two ranges. Wattle and daub panels are visible. A ground-floor room contains an 18th-century corner cupboard with a semi-circular head, fluted pilasters, and shaped shelves. The roof consists of a two-bay 16th-century roof with one arch-braced collar truss and some curved wind bracing, and a four-bay 17th-century roof with collar and tie-beam trusses and one tier of purlins.