Churchtown Barton Farmhouse and Churchtown Barton Cottage
CHURCHTOWN BARTON FARMHOUSE AND CHURCHTOWN BARTON COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1328289
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Churchtown Barton Farmhouse and Churchtown Barton Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCHTOWN BARTON FARMHOUSE AND CHURCHTOWN BARTON COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1328289
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Churchtown Barton Farmhouse and Churchtown Barton Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCHTOWN BARTON FARMHOUSE AND CHURCHTOWN BARTON COTTAGE
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:
- CHURCHTOWN BARTON FARMHOUSE AND CHURCHTOWN BARTON COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Davidstow
- National Grid Reference:
- SX1507787250
Details
DAVIDSTOW DAVIDSTOW
SX 18 NE
2/130 Churchtown Barton Farmhouse and
- Churchtown Barton Cottage
GV II
Farmhouse. Rebuilt in 1849 by John Pearse. Stone rubble, rendered on front
elevation. Granite dressings with some reused dressed stone from earlier house.
Slate roof with gable ends and double gable end on rear elevation. Gable end to
lower range on left. Stone rubble end stacks with ashlar granite dressings.
Plan: Main range of double depth plan with central entrance through C19 porch. 2
reception rooms on front heated by end stacks. Kitchen to rear left heated by side
lateral stack and dairy to rear right. Lower range on left of 2 room plan heated by
end stacks with service range in outshot to rear.
Elizabethan style.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 1:1:1 window front to main range on right; The left
and right hand windows in gabled shallow projecting bays. Central C19 gabled porch
with chamfered shoulder arch with diagonal stops and slit window to left. 2-light
mullion window to left, the lintel inscribed 'THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1607 T P' and 3-
light mullion window to right with inscribed lintel 'REBUILT AD 1849 J P'. First
floor with two 3-light mullion windows and central 2-light mullion window. Range to
left has 2 window regular front with C20 windows on ground and first floor. Rear
door of main range has reset chamfered granite doorframe with pyramid stops. C20
porch extension.
Interior: Main range; left hand room has unmoulded granite lintel to fireplace with
reused hollow chamfered jambs and pyramid stops. Fireplace in kitchen to rear left
has reused granite chamfered lintel and jambs with diagonal stops. C19 ceiling beams
in lower range on left.
The Barton of Davidstow, commonly called Churchtown estate belonged to the Abbey of
Bridgewater. In 1606 it was purchased from the crown by William Pearse and the house
was rebuilt by T. Pearse in 1607. Later passed to the Nicholls family. Barton house
rebuilt in 1849 by John Pearse.
House and yard directly to west of Church of St David (qv).
Polsue, J Lake's Parochial History of the County of Cornwall, 1867 reprinted 1974.
Listing NGR: SX1507787250
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 67398
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Polsue, J, Lakes Parochial History of the County of Cornwall, (1872)
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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