Barberry Cottage

Barberry Cottage is a house dating from around the mid-17th century, which has been altered and extended at the rear in the late 20th century. It is constructed of whitewashed slate rubble and features an asbestos slate roof with gabled ends and red clay ridge tiles. The building has a projecting and truncated gable end stack as well as a rendered rear lateral stack.

The layout includes a two-room and through passage plan, with the hall on the left heated by a lateral stack at the back and a smaller parlour on the right that has a gable end stack. A partition has been added in the parlour to create a bathroom at the back, and there is now a winder staircase in the rear right corner of the hall. In the late 20th century, a single-storey outshut was constructed behind the hall and passage. The adjoining No 2 Barberry Cottages to the left appears to be a later extension or a remodelling of what would have been the lower end of a three-room plan house.

The exterior is two storeys high with an almost symmetrical three-window front. It features 19th-century three-light casements with glazing bars and timber lintels, along with a 19th-century four-light casement on the ground floor to the left. The doorway is located to the right of centre and has a 20th-century divided plank door with a 20th-century gabled canopy. The adjoining No 1 to the left has a two-window front but is not included in this listing. At the rear, to the right, there is a late 20th-century single-storey outshut behind No 2.

Inside, the right-hand room (the parlour) contains a gable end fireplace with an ovolo-moulded timber lintel featuring convex stops, which is now partly blocked. It also has a chamfered cross-beam with straight cut straps. The hall to the left has a lateral fireplace at the back with a chamfered timber lintel, possibly with buried stops, and a brick-lined oven. The hall features a chamfered cross-beam without stops. The first-floor landing and roof space were not inspected, but the roof is described as having straight principal rafters.