Berry Cottage

Berry Cottage is a detached house dating from the late 16th or early 17th century. It is built of roughcast cob on stone footings, with a gabled-end thatched roof. Originally a three-room house with a through-passage, the left side of the passage served as the service end and had an external end stack for heating. The hall was heated by a front lateral external stack, and the small inner room was originally unheated, later receiving an internal end stack in the 19th century. The other stacks are of cob or stone with brick shafts. The front of the house has a three-window range; the first floor has 2-light casement windows, with a raised eaves line above them. French windows are present at the service end and in the inner room, alongside a 2-light casement window in the hall. All the windows are 20th century replacements. A prominent external front stack stands out, constructed with small 17th-century bricks, believed to have been imported, and features two offsets. A slated lean-to porch is also present. The left-hand end stack shows remnants of a bake oven bulge, with two 20th-century windows alongside. The rear is weatherboarded on the first floor, featuring a 2-light casement window beneath eyebrow eaves. A 19th-century porch, decorated with bargeboards and an apex pinnacle, completes the rear elevation, along with three 20th-century casement windows on the ground floor. Inside, a chamfered plank and muntin screen and a chamfered ceiling beam with a hollow step stop can be found in the hall. The service end retains remains of a stone-backed fireplace. The roof structure consists of two bays at the higher end, and one bay at the service end, with trusses that may be jointed crucks, morticed and pegged at the apex, along with trenched purlins.