Stoke Beera Farmhouse

Stoke Beera Farmhouse is a farmhouse dated 1663, although it is believed that earlier fabric is concealed within the structure. The building has undergone 20th-century alterations. It is constructed of stone rubble with heavy whitewashed render on the upper storey. The front has a slate roof, while the rear features an asbestos slate roof, with brick stacks at each gable end. The front has a tall lateral hall stack with a tapered cap and slated offsets. The farmhouse has a 3-cell through-passage plan and is two storeys high with a five-window range. The windows are from the 20th century, and there is a drip mould over the right-hand ground floor casement. A 20th-century rubble porch with a slated roof features a reset datestone reading M 1663 R. At the rear, there is a lean-to dairy outshut with an asbestos slate roof. Inside, there are scroll-stopped beams in each of the principal ground floor rooms. The first-floor chamber at the right end has an ovolo-moulded fireplace lintel dated 1686, featuring the initials PH and a single fleur-de-lis design with two birds and a carved roundel. Two earlier trusses remain at each end beneath the 20th-century roof, with the two trusses at the upper end formerly having two tiers of trenched purlins.