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HALBERTON BRITHEM BOTTOM Lower Beer

GV II

Detached house, formerly a farmhouse. Late C16 with C19 and C20 alterations. Cob, stone plinth, plastered under 3 gabled-end roofs, all slate, but under roof ridge lines of varying levels. Originally a 3-room, cross-passage plan house, now so extensively re-arranged internally that the site of the passage cannot be identified with certainty: it probably lays to the left of the large front lateral external stack (with 3 set-offs) the end room or parlour having been demolished; each component under different roof levels. 2-storeys. Front: scattered fenestration; all windows with C20 barred casements, 4 to first floor, 5 to ground. Left-hand door, another to left of lateral stack under lean-to open porch leading into passage. Interior: a pointed doorway arch (possibly not in situ), and a plank and muntin screen to middle room, the latter now placed behind the room, and visible only from rear. Right-hand room (probably the hall): the front fireplace with stone jambs, cyma recta mouldings, and replaced lintel; above this room are 2 jointed crucks, pegged and morticed at apex, and clean.

Listing NGR: ST0092110217