Barry

Barry is a house that likely dates from the 17th century and was extended at the right end in the 18th century. It features painted roughcast rendered stone rubble and cob, topped with a thatch roof that has a gable end on the right. There is a rendered rear lateral stack for the right-hand room and an axial brick stack that backs onto the passage leading to the left-hand room. The layout consists of a two-room and cross-passage plan, with a two-storey outshut containing a staircase at the back of the left-hand room. At the right end, there is a lofted stable, which is probably an 18th-century addition, with the loft converted into a chamber.

The two-room and cross-passage plan appears to have developed in two phases. The left-hand room was originally the lower end of the adjoining property, Ardlui, and shows evidence of blocked doorways on both floors into the passage of that property. The axial stack was originally a gable end stack, indicating that the cross-passage and the room to the left were likely added later, possibly in the 18th century.

The house is two storeys high and has a three-window range, all featuring 12-paned sashes, with the right end sash having horns. To the left of the timber porch, which has a slate gabled roof, is a shallow canted bay window with six large panes, and there is a 12-paned sash to the right. A plank door leads to the stable at the right end.

Inside, the house retains 18th-century raised and fielded two-panelled doors throughout. The left-hand room has a plastered chamfered cross ceiling beam and an early 20th-century chimneypiece with inlay work. The stables have a cobbled floor. The roof structure over the left-hand room is not accessible, but over the right-hand room and lofted stables, there are three rough-pegged trusses with straight principals and side pegged collars. Some rafters show signs of charring rather than smoke-blackening.

At the rear, there is a detached two-storey outbuilding made of stone rubble and cob, topped with a gable-ended pantiled roof, which is said to have been a malthouse. This outbuilding has two rooms on the ground floor with an entrance passage at the left end. The rear garden is enclosed by high cob walls with pantile capping.