Cotte Barton

Cotte Barton is a farmhouse dating from the early to mid-17th century, which was refurbished in the late 18th to early 19th century and modernised around 1960. It is constructed of white-washed local stone rubble with dressed Beerstone quoins, and features stone rubble stacks topped with 20th-century brick, all under a thatched roof. The original layout was a three-room-and-through passage plan facing north, although it does not follow the traditional late medieval design. The former kitchen is located at the right (west) end, with a rear lateral stack on the lower side of the passage. On the upper side of the passage, there is a small central service room, likely a dairy, with a corridor leading to a parlour at the left (east) end, which has an axial stack backing onto the service room. In the 20th century, the passage partitions were removed, and a new staircase was built in the former service room. Additionally, a new service outshot containing the current kitchen was added behind the original kitchen. The house is two storeys high, with an irregular three-window front featuring 19th and 20th-century casements with glazing bars, and low thatch eyebrows over the first-floor windows. The front doorway to the passage is located right of centre and has a 20th-century plank door behind a contemporary thatch-roofed porch. A similar porch is found at the left end, which contains a 20th-century French window. The roof is half-hipped at both ends. Inside, the kitchen fireplace is made of plastered stone with a roughly chamfered oak lintel, and the oven is blocked. The crossbeam here has deep chamfers with scroll stops. The parlour fireplace is constructed from Beerstone ashlar with a neatly chamfered oak lintel, and it includes an oven that is neater than the kitchen's, confirming its status as the parlour. The crossbeam in the parlour also has deep chamfers, but with step stops. The joinery throughout the house is from the 20th century, while the roof is late 18th to early 19th century, featuring a series of A-frames with pegged and spiked lap-jointed collars and X-apexes.