Kelland Barton

Kelland Barton is a farmhouse with origins dating back to the 16th or 17th century, largely rebuilt around 1840-50. The farmhouse is constructed of plastered rubble, potentially including some cob, with rubble stacks topped with 19th and 20th-century brick, and one plastered shaft. It has a slate roof. The building is L-shaped, with a three-room main block facing north, reflecting its earlier form as a three-room-and-through-passage house. A largely mid-19th century block projects at a right angle from the right (west) end, housing stairs, an entrance hall, and a drawing room. A rear lateral stack is situated in the central room of the main block (the former hall), and end stacks are present on both wings. The two-storey front is divided into two uneven bays by panelled pilasters, one on the facade and another at the left end. The inner bay has a 12-pane sash window on each floor, while the wider outer bay contains a 20th-century service door. The east-facing front of the wing has three 12-pane sashes on the first floor, and late 19th or early 20th-century French windows with a matching overlight on the ground floor to the right. To the left is a 19th-century four-panel door, overlight, panelled reveals, and a flat-roofed timber porch with fluted Doric columns, a dentil cornice, and a moulded entablature. The right end has a panelled pilaster, and the blind end wall has similar pilasters at each end. Deep eaves are supported by pairs of shaped brackets. The roof is gable-ended to the main block and hipped to the wing, the latter having a tall plastered chimney shaft. Inside, the interior is entirely the result of the circa 1840-50 rebuild. The former hall fireplace is believed to have been from the 16th or 17th century, but its oak lintel was removed after a fire around 1960. A rear oriel projection alongside the former hall stack contains a ground-floor 12-pane sash and a first-floor 20-pane sash.