Barnside and 11 including adjoining cob garden wall to west, Uton

Farmhouse, now two cottages, with adjoining cob garden wall to west. 16th century with 17th century improvements, altered and subdivided in the mid 19th century. Built of plastered cob on rubble footings with volcanic stone stacks and 19th century brick chimney shafts, covered with a thatched roof.

The long gable-ended building faces south and has an altered three-room-and-through-passage plan with a small inner room at the west end. End stacks serve the inner and service rooms, with a large lateral stack to the rear of the hall. A 17th century gable-ended rear stair block houses a newel stair from the hall to the inner and hall chambers, and a 19th century stair and service block stands to the rear of the former service room. An outshot extends to the rear of the hall.

The through-passage is now blocked in its centre, creating a lobby entrance to Barnside (comprising the hall and inner room) and a rear storage area to No. 11 (the service room). Entry to the latter cottage is at the rear of the service room. The building is now two storeys. The front elevation displays six windows overall. The passage door is positioned right of centre, a six-panel door with reeded doorcase and a flat hood on plan-shaped consoles. All windows are 20th century iron-framed casements; only those to the right (serving No. 11) have glazing bars, and the three first-floor half-dormers have gabled roofs. The rear gable end of the stair block includes a 17th century three-light oak window with ovolo-moulded mullions.

The interior, though much early fabric is concealed by 19th century plaster, contains significant features. The five-bay roof is carried on side pegged jointed crucks. Access to the roof space is limited to the lower end, but the hall timbers appear clean, suggesting the hall fireplace is original. The hall fireplace is now blocked, but its original massive size is indicated by a large 18th century pine chimneypiece. At the upper end of the hall, the rounded ends of joists show that the chamber above the inner room jetted into the open hall. The ground-floor partition is plastered, though some 17th century panelling has been reused. Traces of ancient colour survive on the head beam of the partition below the internal jetty: black, yellow and orange zigzags, indicating that behind the plaster lies a 16th century screen with painted decoration.

The hall was floored in the 17th century with a massive axial oak beam and half beams along the long walls and across each end, creating two rectangular panels with chamfered surrounds. The timber newel stair was partly refurbished in the 19th century. The passage screen is plastered and now contains a round-headed alcove. The service end was thoroughly modernised in the 19th century, and the first floor may have been raised at that time. However, part of the lower passage plank-and-muntin screen is exposed in a storage cupboard.

In both cottages, 17th century oak small-field panelling was used in the 19th century to block the passage. Extending from the left end is a partly plastered cob wall, built as high as the house with a pitched thatched roof, which curves round the south-west corner of the garden and abuts a nearby barn. It contains an elliptical arch adjacent to the house and three plastered bee holes in the return. This is a good example of a modest, multi-phase Devon farmhouse.