22, 24 AND 25, BARTOWS CAUSEWAY

A terrace of three houses at Bartows Causeway, Tiverton, likely originating as a late 16th or early 17th century farmhouse, was remodelled with additions in the early or mid-19th century. Number 23 is believed to have been located at the rear. The front walls are roughcast, with number 25’s walls being a mixture of cob and stone on the left end, and red brick at the rear. Pantiled roofs cover the structure, with red brick chimneys situated on the ridge at each end of the range and on the party wall between numbers 24 and 25.

Number 25 features two rooms at the front, the original hall to the right and an inner room to the left. The front door opens directly onto the chimney on the right-hand end of the hall, resembling a lobby-entry house arrangement, though this feature likely dates from around 1700. A 19th-century rear wing extends from the left side, incorporating a kitchen and an outhouse. Number 24 appears to be the original lower end of the house.

The houses present two storeys. Number 22 is one-window wide with a door to the left, number 24 has two windows per storey with a door to the right, and number 25 is three windows wide, with a doorway replacing the right-hand ground storey window. Number 22 features an unmoulded four-panel door. The doorway at number 24 is open, leading to a through-passage. Number 25 has a late-20th-century wooden glazed door flanked by 19th-century pilasters supporting an entablature. Windows at number 22 have 9-paned sashes, except the lower sash of the ground-storey window, which now has only 2 panes. All windows at number 24 have 6-paned sashes, as does the upper-storey window on the right at number 25. The remaining windows of number 25 feature 2-paned sashes with a single upright glazing bar. A moulded board runs below the eaves of the entire terrace.

The former hall has a chamfered ceiling beam with scroll-stops, its underside cut back. The fireplace has a brick back with splayed corners and a chamfered wood lintel, likely re-used, featuring step-stops with a bar and overlapping edge. In the upper end of the hall is a stud-and-panel screen with chamfered studs and rounded step-stops, alongside the original doorway with a flat chamfered lintel. Footprints of side-pegged jointed crucks are visible, along with unblackened through-purlins and no ridge. An upper room has a large wooden bolection-moulded chimneypiece, probably dating from around 1700, and the owners report that number 24 formerly had a similar one in the upstairs room on the other side of the chimney stack. Moulded ceiling cornices are present at number 25.