Beere Manor Farmhouse And Attached Barn

Beere Manor Farmhouse and attached barn is a manor house, now a farmhouse, dating to the 16th and 17th centuries, with alterations in the 18th century. The construction includes roughcast, some coursed and squared blue lias stone, and a slate roof with coped verges, along with roughcast stacks. The house has a prominent "Tudor" style frontage. It likely began as a cross-passage plan, and may have originally included a first-floor hall. The house is two storeys and an attic, with a 1:1:1:1 bay arrangement. A low, two-storey porch is set to the left, featuring a lancet window; and to the left of the third bay is a projecting gabled wing, also with a lancet in the gable. A projecting, rendered stack with an offset is located to the side of this wing. Windows are 2-light and 4-light wooden-mullioned and transomed windows in stone surrounds, with moulded sills and close-set glazing bars; the lower half of each light has a sash. A 2-light window is located in the first floor of the porch, with a keyed architrave surround. The front door is an elliptical shape with emphasised imposts, a moulded 4-centred arch, and a half-glazed 19th-century door.

Attached to the left of the frontage at right angles lies a barn. The barn is constructed of random rubble with roughcast and a double Roman tile roof. The inner elevation of the barn appears as a single storey because of a rise in ground level. Four bays contain 2-light wooden mullion and transom windows in plain stone surrounds, with moulded cornices. A blocked door opening is located in the centre, with a casement inserted into the upper half, featuring a bead-moulded stone surround, bolection moulded architrave, and a moulded cornice. The barn is connected to the house by a two-story blank outshut.

The interior of the house includes three half-panelled rooms on the ground floor, the smaller of which is in the front-facing gable and has a fireplace in a bolection moulded surround. A stair turret with an open well staircase to the rear features heavy turned balusters, a ramped handrail, and flat capped square newels. The roof is a 7-bay collar and tie beam construction. The barn contains some chamfered and stopped beams with run-out stops.