Berrywell With Outbuildings And Bridge

Berrywell With Outbuildings And Bridge

A late 18th-century house with later alterations and additions, accompanied by contemporary and later outbuildings and bridge set within its grounds. The main house is a 2-storey structure with attic accommodation, comprising 4 bays with later 2-storey additions to either side. It is harled with droved dressings to front and rear elevations, and features a base course. To the rear, a harled outbuilding stands at 90 degrees to the house, adjoined by a garage, and a stable block also positioned at 90 degrees to the north. A bridge lies to the west.

The south-east elevation presents 3 ashlar steps at centre leading to a consoled and pedimented modern deep-set door with a 4-pane rectangular fanlight above. Windows flank the door on both ground and first floors of the immediately adjoining bays. The outer right addition is set back and features windows to ground and first floor, with a piened canted window to the left of centre. Base course, cill course to both storeys, and eaves course to the canted window are all present. The outer left addition is similarly set back with a 1-bay monopitch addition at ground level, and a further single-storey 1-bay extension to the outer left. Windows at ground and first floor serve the addition immediately to the left, while the outer left section remains blank except for a dormer.

The north-west elevation shows irregularly disposed bays: 2 bays (addition to outer left), 5-2 bays (2-storey to outer right), and 3 bays (single-storey addition to outer right). A stair window sits at the centre of the house, with windows to ground and first floors of the immediately flanking bays. The outer bays each have windows at both levels, with basement windows to the outer left and between it and the penultimate left bay of the house. A first-floor window connects the outer right addition to the right penultimate bay of the house. The additions align with the house wall. The outer left addition has windows to ground level in each bay, while a door with 2-pane rectangular fanlight sits in the bay to the left of the 2-storey addition to the right. The single-storey addition to the outer right has windows to each bay.

The windows throughout comprise plate glass timber sash and case to the south-east elevation of the main house; 4-pane timber sash and case windows to the canted window on the south-east elevation of the outer left addition; and 12- and 8-pane timber sash and case windows to the rear. The roof is slated with brick stacks to each gablehead. Canted dormer windows with exposed roof beams occupy the outer bays of the house on the south-east elevation and also the outer left single-storey addition. Two-pane skylights appear at the centre of the south-east elevation of the house, to the rear of the penultimate right bay, and to the left bay of the outer right single-storey addition.

The interior was not inspected in 1995; however, cornices and shutters remain in place according to the present owner.

The coach house features a north-east elevation with a boarded sliding door to the left, a window to the right, and a dormer at roof level above. It has a slate roof and brick stack to the north-west.

The outbuilding to the rear comprises 4 bays on its north-east elevation, each with a window, and 3 bays on its south-west elevation with a modern stable door at centre and windows to the flanking bays. A glass house extends from the outer right. The roof is piened, with slate to the north-east containing 2 two-pane skylights to the outer bays, terracotta ridge tiles, and pantiled covering to the north-west and south-west with modern rooflights to the outer bays and a 2-pane skylight to the centre of the south-west.

The stable block features 4 irregularly disposed bays on its south-west elevation. A boarded door with 2-pane rectangular fanlight above sits to the inner left, with a window to the inner right and another to the outer left. A later increased timber mullioned window occupies the outer right. The south-east elevation has a gabled configuration with a boarded door and rectangular fanlight above in the bay to the left, and a blinded point-arched opening in the gablehead above; a mounting block stands at centre. The north-east elevation is blank. The roof is slated with a half-piended loft door in the bay to the inner left of the south-west elevation and 2-pane skylights to the bays to the right. A brick stack rises to the gable of the south-east elevation. A monopitch addition extends to the north-west with an adjoining harled outbuilding to the north-east.

The bridge, situated west of the well and mire, is constructed of rubble with a brick arch ring to the west and soffit. A carved plaque to the centre bears the inscription "R Ainslie 1781".

A gateway to the south-west of the house features circular gatepiers with round coping and spiral pedestrian steps to the south-west pier, fitted with wrought delicate gates.