Caerhays Barton Farmhouse

Caerhays Barton Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early to mid-19th century, with later 19th and 20th-century additions and alterations. It is constructed of slatestone rubble, with the front having wooden shingles replacing slate-hanging. The roof is slate with ridge tiles and gable ends. Gable end stacks feature brick shafts, one with a large clay pot. A rear addition to the left has a hipped slate roof, and another to the right also has a hipped slate roof with a lateral passage. The original plan comprised a large two-room layout with a central entrance, each room heated by a gable-end stack. A wing was added to the rear left in the later 19th century, featuring a two-room plan with its own gable-end stack. A single-room wing was also added to the rear right. The exterior presents a symmetrical three-window front. The ground floor has a 19th-century panelled and glazed door with overlight, set into a 20th-century glazed porch with a pitched roof. There are 19th-century 16-pane sash windows to the right and left. The first floor has three 19th-century 16-pane sashes. The right gable end is blind, with a straight joint indicating an addition to the right. This addition has a 19th-century plank door with overlight and two late 19th-century four-pane sashes with segmental brick arches on the ground floor, a small single light and a late 19th-century 12-pane sash with segmental brick arch above. The rear wing to the left has a 19th-century 12-pane sash and a 20th-century door, both with segmental brick arches at ground floor, with two late 19th-century 12-pane sashes above, also with segmental brick arches. The rear wing to the right is also two-storey; it has a 20th-century window and a 19th-century 12-pane sash with segmental brick arch on its inner side. Attached to the rear is a single-storey range of outhouses with a slurried scantle slate hipped roof, plank doors facing into the yard, and a section built of rendered cob with rusticated granite and a single light four-pane casement window. The interior has not been inspected, but may retain good, plain 19th-century features. It sits within a yard bounded by outbuildings forming an L-plan.