Lower Berse Farmhouse

Lower Berse Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building made of brick with a slate roof. It dates from the 14th to 16th centuries and features an H-plan layout with two storeys and asymmetrical parlour and service wings. The main range includes an encased hall from the 14th to 16th centuries, with a cross-passage. The exterior brickwork is of early date, possibly from the early 18th century. A massive stone stack, which is a 16th-century addition, projects from the front wall of the hall range.

To the right, there is a long wing with a doorway under a veranda porch, and to the left, a shorter wing. Both wings have casement windows with latticed panes and hood moulds, along with decorative bargeboards on the overhanging eaves, which are characteristic of the estate architecture of Plas Power. The rear windows have been renewed.

Inside, the original box-framed central hall retains its central truss, featuring an arched braced cambered tie beam and raking struts below the collar, as well as part of a spere truss and the moulded beam of a dais canopy. The moulded ceiling beams and the side wall fireplace, which has a chamfered beam supported by corbelled jambs, date from the 16th-century subdivision of the hall.