Berribridge House

Berribridge House is a house dating from the 17th century and later, currently operating as a restaurant and guest house. The building is whitewashed and rendered, featuring a thatched roof with a plain ridge that is half-hipped at the ends. It has three projecting rear lateral stacks with rendered shafts. The plan consists of a single depth layout that is three rooms wide, with a single-storey thatched block on the right end and a single-storey slate-roofed block on the left end. The original plan form was unclear at the time of the survey in 1986, but it may have been arranged as three rooms with a through passage, or possibly as a row of adjoining cottages.

The exterior is two storeys high and has an asymmetrical front with two buttressed windows on the right and six windows overall. The two right-hand windows are part of the slate-roofed block. There is a modern entrance at the front leading into the right-hand room. The second ground floor window from the left may have been converted from a doorway that led to the proposed passage. The small casement windows vary in design, some likely dating from the 18th century, with square leaded panes. The three projecting lateral stacks on the rear elevation are an unusual feature, with the rear right stack containing a bread oven.

The interior has not been thoroughly inspected. The ground floor room on the left in the thatched block has a small, likely rebuilt fireplace with chamfered stone jambs and an ovolo-moulded lintel. The central room, thought to be the hall, has a blocked fireplace that may conceal earlier features and roughly-chamfered cross beams. The right-hand room contains a roughly-chamfered beam and exposed joists. The roof space was not inspected during the survey but may be of interest, with the possibility of medieval timbers surviving that could change the suggested dating of the building.