Beer Farmhouse

Beer Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 16th century or early 17th century, possibly with earlier origins, and features 19th and 20th-century additions. The structure has rendered cob and rubble walls with a thatched roof that is gabled to the left and half-hipped to the right. It includes two rendered axial stacks, likely with rubble bases and brick shafts. The plan consists of a three-room-and-through-passage layout, with the lower end located to the left. The hall stack is positioned against the passage and features a projecting window bay at the front, along with newel stairs in a projection at the rear. The fireplace at the end of the lower room is probably a later addition. There are likely 19th-century rear outshuts and a 20th-century addition.

The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical four-window front. All windows are later 20th-century small-paned one and two-light casements, except for the right-hand window on the first floor, which is a 17th-century three-light chamfered wooden mullion window. A projecting hall bay is located to the right of the centre. To the left of centre, there is a 20th-century thatch doorhood supported by wooden posts, with a 20th-century plank door behind it. The rear features two outshuts under a catslide extension of the thatch roof, with the end one incorporating the stair projection. A 20th-century one-storey addition is located behind the left-hand end.

Inside, the hall contains an open fireplace with a chamfered wooden lintel. The ceiling beams are chamfered with pyramid stops, and there are wooden newel stairs at the rear. The inner room has decorative plasterwork on the ceiling, featuring a single rib heart motif in each corner, which may date from the 17th century. Although the roof is not accessible, its external appearance suggests it was reroofed in the 20th century, though it is possible that older timbers may still be present underneath.