Court Barton

Court Barton is a detached house, formerly a farmhouse, dating from the early 17th century. It is constructed of roughcast cob and stone rubble, with some brick patching, and features a gable end slate roof. The house has a two-room, through-passage plan, with the main room on the left, which has a plaster ceiling, and a rear wing. This design creates a symmetrical front by placing the service room at the back. The front rooms are heated by internal end stacks, while the rear wing is heated by a partially external stack. All stacks have brick shafts. The main staircase is located in the rear wing, with a service staircase at the back of the passage.

The exterior features a roughly symmetrical three-window arrangement. The first floor has four-light timber casement windows, all with cyma recta surrounds; the outer windows have cyma recta mullions and jambs, while the middle window has ovolo moulding. On the ground floor, there are five-light casement windows on either side of the doorway, both with cyma recta surrounds, jambs, and mullions, and a timber hood mould that is likely from the 19th century. All windows contain ten leaded panes per light. The right-hand end has no windows, and the gable wall has been rebuilt in brick. The left-hand side elevation features two first floor casement windows with five and two lights, respectively, and a large four-light window on the ground floor of the wing. There are lean-tos at the rear.

Inside, the left-hand room has three cross ceiling beams, with one plaster panel remaining that features single ribbed, interlocking diamonds with flanking ogival forms and angle sprays. Two of the beams retain their original plaster guilloche decoration and ovolo moulding. The right-hand room has a deeply chamfered ceiling beam with hollow step stops. Early fireplaces may be concealed in both rooms, while the wing end fireplace has been remodelled in the 19th century. There is some notable 19th-century joinery, including intact doors and a ventilator from the former dairy. The plaster ceiling has been noted by K and C French in their work on Devonshire plasterwork.