Pillaton Barton Farmhouse

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PILLATON
SX 36 SE
5/197 Pillaton Barton Farmhouse
6.8.86
GV II
Farmhouse, now house. Late C17, with addition of mid C18 and further additions and
alterations of C19 and C20. Stone rubble, partly rendered, front lined out. Hipped
slurried slate roof with ridge tiles; front slope of main range and outshut in
asbestos slate. 2 rear lateral stacks.
Plan: 2-room plan with central entrance to passage, hall/kitchen to right and parlour
to left, each heated by rear lateral stack. In the mid C18, a wing of one-room plan,
unheated, was added to the front of the hall/kitchen. A stair was inserted in the
rear of the passage at about the same time. Probably later in the C18 - early C19, a
single storey outshut was added to the rear, enclosing the rear of the passage.
Exterior: 2 storeys, asymmetrical 2-window front with the front wing to right. The
main range has two 3-light casements at ground floor, one to left with L hinges of
C18, the other a C20 replacement; first floor has two 3-light and one2-light
casement; to right, half-glazed door with pitched hood. The wing to right is 2-
storey, with 2-light casement at ground and first floor, with timber lintel at ground
floor. The left end is also rendered and lined out, with rough slatestone footings;
first floor central 3-light casement with L hinges. The right side includes the wing,
and is in painted rubble with granite quoins. Ground floor has two 2-light casements
and one 3-light casement, first floor has two 2-light casements; first floor windows
and ground floor to right have L hinges. At the rear there is a 2-light casement at
first floor to left. Single storey outshut to left, with two 2-light casements and
9-pane light, C20 door in glazed porch.
Interior: Not fully accessible at time of survey (June 1986). In the rear of the
passage is an C18 dog-leg stair, with turned balusters, moulded handrail. 4-panelled
door to the parlour to left. The hall/kitchen to right has rear fireplace with
roughly hewn granite lintel and oven to left. Boxed straight stair to the front of
the room, with C18 baluster. Along the outer wall of the room, a bench with carved
supports, probably of late C17. The room in the front wing was probably originally a
dairy.


Listing NGR: SX3640964131

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