Berry Barton Berry Barton Farmhouse Berry Manor House

Berry Manor House, along with Berry Barton Farmhouse and Berry Barton, forms a manor house with ranges on four sides of a courtyard, now three separate houses located immediately north of the Church of St Mary. Berry Manor House occupies the south and east sides, dating to circa the 16th and 17th centuries and remodelled in the 18th and early 19th centuries. It is constructed of rendered stone rubble with a slate roof featuring gabled ends and overhanging bracketed eaves. The roof at the northeast end is lower and hipped. The south front has two storeys and a six-window range. It features moulded stone mullion windows with three lights, hoodmoulds, and leaded panes. Ground floor windows have been replaced with large 18th-century sash windows, also with hoodmoulds. A fielded panel door with a rectangular fanlight is set within a 19th-century wooden trellis porch. There are rendered ridge chimney stacks. A long wing extends to the rear, forming an L-shaped plan, with a large rendered external chimney stack on the east side, incorporating a stair projection to the right and a doorway on the left with an old leaded casement above.

Berry Barton Farmhouse adjoins the north side and forms the third side of the yard. It dates to circa the 17th century, built of rendered stone rubble, with a steeply pitched slate roof and a hipped corner. It has two storeys and a long five-window range with various casements. A rendered ridge chimney stack and external stairs lead to a loft door. Berry Barton, adjoining the west side, completes the fourth side of the quadrangle. It dates to circa the 17th century, remodelled in the late 19th century, and is constructed of rendered stone with a steeply pitched concrete tile roof and gabled ends. The two-storey front has a four-window range with 19th-century casements. Late 19th-century splayed bays and a porch are located at the centre of the ground floor. A two-light, hollow-chamfered, granite mullion window is present at the rear, facing the yard. There are rendered ridge stacks and gable end stacks, with a later gabled wing to the front left.

Inside Berry Manor House, a large 16th-century granite chimney piece is found in the centre ground floor room on the rear wall, featuring two orders of roll-moulded ogee arches and two granite doorways with roll-moulded four-centred heads and carved spandrels. 17th-century wainscot panelling is present in the centre and west end rooms. A 18th-century lean-to passage is located at the rear, with a moulded cornice. The staircase is Victorian. Historically, Berry Manor House served as the rectory before the Reformation and was used by the Priors of Moreton, to whom the church belonged. After the Reformation, it passed to the Dukes of Somerset and, after the destruction of the Seymour Mansion within Berry Pomeroy Castle, reputedly became the Dower House of the Seymours.