West Barton Farmhouse
WEST BARTON FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163371
- Date first listed:
- 29-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- West Barton Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WEST BARTON FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163371
- Date first listed:
- 29-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- West Barton Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WEST BARTON FARMHOUSE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- WEST BARTON FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Horwood, Lovacott and Newton Tracey
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 50425 27442
Details
HORWOOD HORWOOD SS 52 NW 4/62 West Barton Farmhouse GV II
Farmhouse, now private dwelling. Early C17 with C18 alterations and C19 remodelling. Rendered stone and cob. Slate roof with gable end brick stacks with 2 tapered clay pots at right end. Tall lateral front hall stack with offsets, drip, tapered cap and brick shaft. Brick stack to gable end of rear wing. 3 room cross-passage plan with dairy wing to rear of hall and cross-passage forming overall T-shape plan. 2 storeys. 5 window range, C19/C20 fenestration. Small 4-paned single light window to left and above horned sash with margin glazing bars to left of 2 over 4 paned horned sash above C20 lighting stairhall. Tall Gothic pointed arched window introduced in early C20 doorway. 12 paned horned sash over gabled slate roof to porch. C20 plank door with cover strips. 16-paned horned sash at right end above C20 canted bay window. Interior: some C18 and C19 joinery survives, including cupboards to hall, 4 panelled door between cross-passage and hall. C17 chamfered lintel to fireplace with C19 mantel shelf. C18 dog-leg staircase to cross-passage with moulded and wreathed handrail ramped up to slender newels with stick balusters. Dairy fittings intact. C17 chamfered door surround to chamber over hall with scroll-stopped durns. Old plank doors to most of the bedrooms. The roof structure oer the hall intact and of high quality C17 carpentry with 4 trusses with short curved feet. 2 tiers of threaded purlins and ridge purlin, morticed and tenoned collars with chamfers to each arris to the soffits of the principals. Solid wall partitions rise to the apex of the roof between hall/inner room and cross passage/lower end with the roof structures over each end being C20 replacements. To each end of the hall, therefore, there have been successive remodellings, the lower end and cross- passage altered in C18 and again in C20, the inner room end rebuilt and extended to form a kitchen and servants wing in the C19.
Listing NGR: SS5042527442
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 98766
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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