Hackpen Barton

ST 01 SE 4/131

UFFCULME Hackpen Barton

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Farmhouse. Possibly late C16, extended in the C17, with later alterations. Roughcast cob on stone footings; gable end and hipped slate roof. The original plan is uncertain; it may have been a 3-room, cross passage plan house, the service end to the right of the passage, heated by an end stack, the hall to the left, heated (unusually) by an axial stack at the higher end. Both stacks with brick shafts. These 2 stacks coincide with the only 2 jointed cruck trusses in the building. The roof is hipped to the left; in the C17 the building was extended by one large room to the service end, its roof ridge line considerably lower than that of the main range, and this is heated by an end stack, again with a brick shaft. If a doorway reset in a nearby outbuilding came originally from the house (as seems probably), the date of the first build would be C16; the detailing elsewhere is C17. 2 storeys. Exterior. Front: 4-window range; first floor with a small 2-light casement window to the left, the others of 3 lights, lintels at eaves level : they all look C19. Ground floor : 3-light windows to hall and inner room, 4-light window to original service end, all C19 casements. C20 timber porch to passage. The C17 service end extension with a C20 leanto and one 4-light casement window to ground floor; no first floor windows. C20 fenestration to both ends. Rear: irregular fenestration with 5 very small first floor casement windows (to light rear corridor); C20 windows below; buttressing. Interior: inner room with unstopped chamfered cross ceiling beam: between this room and the hall is a doorway with chamfered jambs and cranked lintel, possibly C16. Hall with deeply chamfered and unstopped cross ceiling beams together with an axial half beam to the rear. Head beam of higher end screen to passage, with hollow step stops and rebate for the dismantled screen. Original service end fireplace with an ovolo moulded lintel that may be a re-used ceiling beam. Service end extension with axial ceiling beam, chamfered with scroll stops. Roof: Alcock F2 type jointed crucks where indicated above, the rest later collar- rafter trusses.

Listing NGR: ST0989511905