Middle Beer

Middle Beer is a detached house dating from the 17th century. It is constructed of cob with a stone plinth, plastered at the front, and features random rubble with some brick in other areas, all beneath a half-hipped asbestos-tiled roof. The layout is likely a two-room, cross-passage plan, with an axial stack that has a plastered shaft backing onto a now-blocked passage.

The front of the house has scattered fenestration with small two-light casement windows, including two on the first floor and three on the ground floor. The rear has three small two-light 19th-century casement windows on the first floor and two below, all with brick window arches.

Inside, there are roughly chamfered beams and a fireplace with a chamfered lintel and hollow step stops. The house contains two 17th or 18th-century planked doors with rails, one of which has its original lock. There is also a 19th-century pump in the front garden. Middle Beer is centrally located in the hamlet of Brithem Bottom and was likely originally a farm, possibly contemporary with the nearby Lower Beer and Overdale.