Court Barton Cottages

This is a farmhouse, now a house, dating to the late 16th and early 17th centuries, with alterations made in the late 17th century. The structure is built with plastered cob on rubble footings, featuring stone stacks topped with 20th-century brick and a wheat reed thatched roof. It has an L-shaped layout, with a main block facing south-east and a rear block at a right angle behind the right-hand room. A lateral stack is located at the front of the right room, and an axial stack sits between the main block and the rear wing. The building is two storeys high and has an irregular two-window front with 20th-century two-light casement windows. A large slate-roofed oven projection is situated to the right of the doorway. The roof is hipped at each end. A rear first-floor casement window includes one light of leaded rectangular panes. The gable end of the rear block contains a late 16th to early 17th century oak window with five lights, featuring mullions that are chamfered externally but ovolo-moulded internally. The rear block is original to the late 16th and early 17th century building and contains a chamfered oak cross beam with run-out stops and fragments of a volcanic stone fireplace. The front block was completely rebuilt in the late 17th century, although an original oak plank-and-muntin screen was re-used on the right side of the passage. This screen is inscribed "TP 1692," which may represent the rebuilding date.