Marsh Barton Farmhouse

CLYST ST GEORGE SX 98 NE 2/6 Marsh Barton Farmhouse -

• II

2 dwellings, formerly a single farmhouse. Possibly C16, but much altered. Roughcast cob, on stone footings, with gabled-end and hipped roof. Probably a 3- room, through-passage house, the lower end to the right of the passage, with a front parlour wing, 2 rooms in length. 2 storeys. Front: 3-window range, with 3-light casement windows to first floor, similar wlndows to hall and service end. Two 3-light windows to each floor of inner face of parlour wing, with a central doorway with glazed porch. C19 and C20 fenestration elsewhere. An impressive array of chimney stacks is the buildings most conspicuous feature: there are 6 in all, all rendered; 3 axial (or almost axial) + 2 end stacks, and 1 lateral stack to the wing. It is difficult to be certain which of these stacks are original; that backing onto the passage is entirely C20. Interior: some roughly chamfered ceiling beams, and a chamfered lintel to hall fireplace. C18 pegged roof to wing. The house is of considerable historical interest, as it was the home of the Sokespitch family from the middle of the C12 to the late C18; they gradually reclaimed the surrounding marshland and have been the subject of a study by W G Hoskins, Old Devon (1966, reprinted 1971), pp. 121-34.

Listing NGR: SX9778288232