Clowance Barton Farmhouse

Farmhouse. It dates from around the late 19th century, with later 19th-century extensions. The construction uses coursed dressed granite and dressed killas, with dressed granite quoins, chamfered jambstones and lintels. It has gabled dry Delabole slate roofs with gable, axial and lateral chimneys. Projecting eaves and verges feature shaped wooden barge boards, along with crested red clay ridge tiles.

Originally, the farmhouse had a single-depth, shallow E-shaped plan, incorporating a service wing at a right angle behind the right-hand side. The original three-room front has shallow gable-ended bays on either side, with a single-story porch projecting further out in the middle. Behind the porch is likely an axial passage, and the room behind it is heated by a rear lateral stack. A single-room plan extension was added to the service wing at a right angle to the rear right-hand side around the late 19th century. Subsequently, another service wing was added behind the left-hand room, along with a staircase in the angle, and the front of the house was extended by two bays (an entrance hall and a living room) in a matching style. This extension included a gabled projection and likely provided self-contained separate accommodation. A circa late 19th-century single-story range of outbuildings adjoins the rear of the original service wing.

The original front is symmetrical, with a 1:1:1 bay arrangement, while the extension on the left has a 1:1 bay layout in a similar style. The original front features a single-story gable-ended porch, and shallow gabled-ended two-story projections either side. The porch has a central doorway with double, partially glazed doors, and a taller window above breaks the eaves with a stone gable. With the exception of a narrower window over the door, which has a single four-pane horned sash, all windows have circa late 19th-century paired four-pane horned sashes. The left-hand extension includes a two-story gable-ended projection on the far left and a gable-ended porch to the right, which was remodelled in the 20th century. The original section has coursed masonry, while the extension has killas brought to course. All gables, on the front, rear, and ends, have projecting verges with shaped wooden barge boards. The other elevations are rubble with granite dressings and retain their circa late 19th-century horned sashes. The interior was not inspected. This principal farmhouse on the Clowance estate is attractive on all elevations and virtually unaltered since around the late 19th century.