Hayne Barton

Hayne Barton is a house dating from the early 17th century with later 17th-century refurbishment, and possibly a late 17th-century wing addition. It is constructed of colourwashed rendered stone rubble with a bitumen-painted slate roof, gabled at the ends. The building has a left end stack with stone shaft, a rear lateral stack with truncated shaft, and a front right stack with brick shaft projecting through the roof, plus an end stack to the wing.

The plan comprises an early 17th-century main range of four rooms and a through passage, with the lower end positioned to the left. To the right of the passage are the hall, an inner room, and a small unheated service room. An external stair is located on the rear wall of the hall. A single-room kitchen at right angles to the rear of the lower end may be a late 17th-century or later addition. The hall and inner room were refurbished in the late 17th century, and the inner room stack may date from this period. A single-storey rear lean-to now encloses the stair projection. The accommodation has been extended into a former outbuilding adjoining the left end, and the partition between the hall and inner room has been removed. The building is two storeys with an asymmetrical six-window front. A good ovolo-moulded 17th-century door frame with decayed stops leads to the through passage, left of centre. A separate entrance serves the unheated right-hand room. Small two- and three-light probably 19th-century timber casement windows with glazing bars are present. At the left end, an adjoining outbuilding with a separate entrance has a probably resited ground-floor ovolo-moulded mullioned window. The right gable end wall of the main range has two probably resited 17th-century small mullioned windows at first-floor level.

Interior features are of high quality. A plank and muntin screen fronts the passage, which has a rear doorframe with a cranked head. The hall and inner room (partition now removed) have a good late 17th-century plaster cornice and two deeply chamfered plastered-over cross beams with ornamental plaster moulding. The inner room front corner fireplace has a plaster chimneypiece with festoons of flowers. A cranked doorframe leads to the stair off the hall; a plank and muntin screen separates the inner room from the right end room. Good early 17th-century panelled doors, some rehung, are present. The lower end room is equally impressive, with two very deeply-chamfered cross beams with step stops, a massive fireplace with a chamfered lintel and the remains of two bread ovens. To the right of the fireplace a large timber post projects into the room, rounded at the end, with a modern wall built below it. It may have been part of a stair arrangement adjacent to the fireplace or possibly associated with a walk-in smoking chamber. The kitchen wing has no exposed timbers but contains a large fireplace with probably 19th-century lintel and two bread ovens. Eighteenth-century joinery on the first floor suggests that the axial passage is probably of that date. The roofspace, not inspected, is said to have clean A-frame trusses.