Chawleigh Barton Including Rubble And Cob Garden Wall Adjoining To South

Chawleigh Barton is a farmhouse dating from the 17th century, with possible earlier origins, and extensively refurbished in 1877. It is constructed of local stone rubble to the front, with brick arches over the windows, and cob and rubble to the end and rear walls. There are stone rubble stacks with 19th and 20th century brick chimney shafts, and a slate roof. The original 3-room-and-through-passage plan is still discernible.

The house faces south, the former inner room being at the right (east) end and the lower end parlour at the left (west) end. The passage was enlarged in 1877 to accommodate a stair. The former inner room and parlour each have end stacks, the parlour stack projecting, and the hall has an axial stack backing onto the former passage. 19th-century outshots extend across the entire rear, including a kitchen at the left (west) end with a rear stack.

The 1877 front is irregular, featuring a 5-window arrangement with similar 3 and 4-light casements, all with glazing bars, and all with brick segmental arches. A rubble porch with a gabled roof, incorporating bands of scallop-shaped slates, is situated towards the left end of the front. The porch's outer arch is a plain brick 2-centred arch, above which is a Portland stone plaque displaying the Portsmouth crest in bas relief and the date 1877. The roof is gable-ended to the left and hipped to the right. The right end and rear walls show 19th-century blockings of earlier window embrasures.

The interior was thoroughly refurbished in 1877, but the layout suggests that earlier features may survive behind the 19th-century plaster. Notably, all fireplaces are blocked by 19th-century grates. The hall retains a mid-17th century crossbeam, with an ovolo-moulded soffit enriched with lozenge step stops and chiselled motifs. The lower end parlour (part of which is now within the entrance hall) has two mid-17th century crossbeams, both with double ovolo soffit mouldings with large bar-runout stops. The roof is not accessible, but the external walls suggest it was raised in 1877.

To the left end of the front, a low rubble wall with granite coping runs southwards, soon ramping up to a high cob wall topped with thatch, which includes a bee bole. This wall lines the left (west) side of the front garden.