Chevithorne Barton

Chevithorne Barton is a manor house dating from the early 17th century, originally the seat of the Frauncis family until 1664 and later the Prideaux family until the 19th century. The rear service wing was rebuilt in the 19th century and remodeled in 1930 by Sir Albert Richardson for the Heathcote-Amory family.

The building features a rendered exterior on rubble, with freestone door and window dressings and copings. It has steep dry slate gabled roofs with four front gables that increase in size from left to right, and gable copings with moulded kneelers. There are rendered brick stacks, including two rear lateral stacks with paired shafts, two single stacks towards the left and right, an unrendered right-hand stack, and a larger end stack on the right.

The overall plan is large and E-shaped, including service wings at the rear, which were remodeled in 1930 to create a large L-plan living room. The front range consists of a large three-room plan with a cross passage to the left, a central hall, and a slightly projecting parlour wing on the right.

The exterior has three storeys, with second-floor rooms partly in the roof space. It features a 1:1:2:1-bay range, with the wider parlour front projecting on the right. Square hoodmoulds are present over the original two, three, and four-light mullioned windows. The entrance bay has a wide round-arched moulded doorway with a hoodmould.

Inside, there are notable 17th-century features, including a four-centred doorway on the first floor, an open-well staircase with ball finials on heavy newels, and the Oak Room in the east wing. This room showcases fluted pilasters with Jacobean panelling, fine plasterwork on the frieze, a single-rib ceiling, and an overmantle depicting Orpheus along with the figures of Hope and Wisdom.