Landsend Barton Farmhouse Including Cob Wall Adjoining To East

Farmhouse. Dating to the early 16th century, with later 16th and 17th century alterations, it was refurbished and significantly altered in 1976. The main structure is plastered cob on rubble footings, with stone rubble stacks topped with 1976 brick, and a 1976 slate roof, originally thatched. Originally a three-room-and-through-passage plan house facing east, likely with a service room at the left (south) end. A 17th century service crosswing projects forward on the right (north) end. The right end room, believed to be the original inner room, has an end stack, and the left end room has a front lateral stack. The hall stack was demolished. The crosswing has a front end stack. The house now presents an irregular three-window front with 1976 casements, glazing bars, and contemporary doors, the main door being to the left of centre, with French windows at the rear left end. A similar one-window front faces the inner side of the crosswing. The main block has a hipped roof to the left, and the crosswing is gable-ended. The interior was rearranged in 1976, including the removal of an oak plank-and-muntin screen and ceiling beams. The only early feature visible on the ground floor is a large 17th century granite and volcanic stone fireplace with a soffit-chamfered oak lintel in the supposed inner room; other original features may be hidden behind later plaster. The original roof structure survives, showing construction from different parts of the 16th and 17th centuries. Though the feet of the trusses are boxed in, the earliest trusses are likely jointed crucks. The northern hall truss, the earliest, has a shaped and soffit-chamfered collar rising in the centre, with slots for removed arch braces, creating an unusual ogee arch. A later hall truss to the south has a simple straight collar, and a further truss to the south appears to have secondary infill. The roof was formerly open to the roof, heated by an open hearth fire and probably divided by low partition screens, as evidenced by soot throughout the structure. North of the ogee truss is a secondary crosswall (probably late 16th to early 17th century) and beyond that a 17th century A-frame truss with a pegged lap-joined collar. The roof of the crosswing is inaccessible. A plastered cob wall with slate coping extends eastwards along the right side of the front garden from the front right corner of the crosswing. This wall includes a 20th century doorway with a gabled slate roof and a series of five bee boles.