Sampford Barton Including Front Garden Wall

Sampford Barton is a farmhouse dating to 1775, with substantial refurbishment in the late 19th century. The house is constructed of plastered stone rubble, possibly with some cob, featuring stone rubble stacks topped with 19th-century brick and a slate roof. The building follows a basic L-plan. The main block faces south-southeast across a steep hillside, comprising a two-room plan with a central entrance hall. The dining room is located to the west and the parlour to the east, both with gable-end stacks. A rear block projects at right angles from the rear of the west end, overlapping slightly, and contains a kitchen with a gable-end stack. A gabled stair block is located to the rear of the entrance hall, flanked by two-storey outshots across the back of the main block. A coach house projects at right angles to the rear of the right end of the main block. The house is two stories high. The front of the main block presents a symmetrical facade with three 19th-century windows with 16 panes. The ground-floor windows are larger than those on the first floor, which have outer margin panes. Window embrasures have chamfered reveals. A late 19th-century panelled and part-glazed double door is set within a contemporary flat-roofed timber porch with chamfered posts, accessed via a flight of stone steps. Quoin strips are present at each end of the front, likely dating to the 19th century. The moulded plaster eaves cornice is original to the 18th century. The outer (western) side of the rear block contains a 19th-century part-glazed 6-panel door behind a gabled porch with a round-headed outer arch, and the windows here are casements with glazing bars, each with a stucco arch and keystone. This rear block, along with the coach house block, is gable-ended. The entrance hall was observed during a survey, and it is lined with original large field panelling in two heights with a moulded box cornice. It features an elliptical arch leading to the stair block, retaining the original dogleg staircase with an open string, shaped stair brackets, a moulded flat handrail, and turned balusters with flat blocks. Extensive contemporary and 19th-century joinery detail is likely present throughout the house, which appears largely unaltered since the 19th century.