Pillaton Barton Farmhouse

Pillaton Barton Farmhouse is a farmhouse, now a house, dating back to the late 17th century. It was extended in the mid-18th century, and further altered in the 19th and 20th centuries. The farmhouse is constructed of stone rubble, partly rendered and lined out on the front. It has a hipped slurried slate roof with ridge tiles, and sections of asbestos slate on the front slope of the main range and outshut. There are two rear lateral stacks.

The original plan was of two rooms with a central entrance to a passage, a hall or kitchen to the right, and a parlour to the left, each with a rear lateral stack for heating. In the mid-18th century, a single-room wing was added to the front of the hall or kitchen. A stair was inserted into the back of the passage at around the same time. Later, probably in the late 18th or early 19th century, a single-story outshut was added to the rear, enclosing the passage.

The front of the house is asymmetrical, with two floors and two windows. The main range features two three-light casement windows on the ground floor, one with 18th-century L hinges, the other a 20th-century replacement. The first floor has two three-light and one two-light casement windows. A half-glazed door with a pitched hood is located to the right. The wing to the right is two stories high, with two-light casement windows on both floors; the ground floor window has a timber lintel. The left end of the main range is rendered and lined out with rough slatestone footings. The first floor has a central three-light casement window with L hinges. The right side, which includes the wing, is painted rubble with granite quoins. The ground floor has two two-light casements and one three-light casement; the first floor has two two-light casements. The rear has a two-light casement window on the first floor to the left. The outshut to the left has two two-light casements and a nine-pane light; it also includes a 20th-century door within a glazed porch.

The interior was partially inaccessible when surveyed in June 1986. A dog-leg staircase with turned balusters and a moulded handrail is located at the rear of the passage. A four-panel door leads to the parlour. The hall or kitchen has a rear fireplace with a roughly hewn granite lintel and an oven to the left; a straight staircase leads to the front of the room, with an 18th-century baluster. A bench with carved supports, probably from the late 17th century, is situated along the outer wall of the room. The room in the front wing was likely originally a dairy.