Howard Barton Farmhouse

Howard Barton Farmhouse is a farmhouse that likely has a core dating back to the 16th century. It was rebuilt in the mid-17th century, refurbished in the late 19th century, and modernized in 1984. The building features plastered cob on rubble footings, with brick and granite stacks topped with late 19th-century brick, and a slate roof that was originally thatched.

The farmhouse was originally designed as a three-room-and-through-passage house facing southeast, with a service room at the left (southwest) end. In the 18th or 19th century, the inner room end was extended to create an additional room, and in the 19th century, the service room was refurbished, and a stair was built that blocked the rear passage door. There is an end stack to the service room and an axial hall stack that backs onto the former passage, along with an inner room stack in the former gable end.

The front of the house has an irregular arrangement of five windows, featuring late 19th and 20th-century casements, with a late 19th-century repiartite sash window at the left end. A late 19th-century four-panel door with an overlight is located at the passage, which is sheltered by a monopitch slate-roofed hood. There are also 1984 French windows near the right end, where the former inner room is located. The roof is half-hipped at each end.

Inside, the farmhouse retains good mid-17th-century features in the hall and inner room, including chamfered crossbeams with bar-scroll stops, chamfered window lintels with scroll stops, and granite fireplaces with ogee-moulded oak lintels that have enriched chamfer-scroll stops. The lintel of the inner room fireplace was raised in height in the late 19th century with the addition of a brick side oven. To the left of this fireplace, there is a winder stair leading to the first floor, where the chambers are divided by plastered cob-nogged framed partitions. The roof is not accessible, and the service end was rebuilt in the late 19th century.