Flitton Barton

FLITTON BARTON

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1288813
Date first listed:
24-Nov-1988
List Entry Name:
Flitton Barton
Statutory Address:
FLITTON BARTON

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1288813
Date first listed:
24-Nov-1988
List Entry Name:
Flitton Barton
Statutory Address 1:
FLITTON BARTON

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
FLITTON BARTON

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Devon
District:
North Devon (District Authority)
Parish:
North Molton
National Grid Reference:
SS 71353 30929

Details

NORTH MOLTON SS 73 SW 10/110 Flitton Barton - GV II Barton, now farmhouse. Early to mid C17, with mid to late C19 alterations and addition. Late C20 alterations. Rendered over cob and stone with C19 addition of dressed stone with ashlar dressings. Gable-ended C20 (probably asbestos) slate roof to C17 range (formerly thatched) and scantle-slate roof to C19 wing, with gable ends to front and back. C17 stone square stacks with weatherings; C19 stone stack with red-brick top. Plan and development: C17 three-room plan facing south (ground falls to left). Integral end stack to left and axial stack between central and right-hand room. Mid to late C19 addition to right, consisting of entrance hall to left with porch to front and staircase to rear, and slightly projecting gabled cross wing to right. Probably C20 wing to rear of right-hand end of C17 range. Two storeys. Exterior: Roughly symmetrical 3-window front to C17 range, with late C20 plate-glass wooden casements in old openings. C20 glazed door to left with C20 lean-to glazed porch. Left-hand ground-floor window was formerly doorway. C19 wing to right with chamfered plinth and shaped barge boards. Two first-floor C19 wooden cross windows with stone flat-arched heads and one ground-floor C20 plate-glass window (in C19 opening), also with stone flat arch. First-floor C19 one-light casement set-back to left with wooden lintel. C19 half-glazed door to left (2 panels below and margin lights above) and gabled stone porch with boarded door in beaded frame, approached by slate steps. Interior: Left-hand ground-floor room of C17 range has C17 open fireplace with stone jambs and chamfered wooden lintel with runout stops; central ground-floor room has C18 cupboard with 2 doors (each of 2 raised and fielded panels) and H-L hinges. Right-hand ground-floor has C17 chamfered cross beam with runout stops. First-floor rooms and roofspace not inspected at time of survey (September 1987). The old list description (February 1967) refers to leaded windows, now replaced.

Listing NGR: SS7135330929

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
398446
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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