Gordons Farmhouse And Attached Barns

Gordons Farmhouse and attached barns is a house, formerly a farmhouse, likely dating from the 16th century. It has been significantly altered in the 20th century and extended into part of a right-angled cob barn at the upper end, with the remainder used as a garage. There is also a further rubble barn with a loft over on the rear north side. The building is constructed of rendered stone rubble and cob, topped with a slate roof featuring gable ends. It is two stories tall and follows a three-cell plan, originally designed with a through-passage, although the screen has been removed and stairs added.

The front of the house has a large lateral stack with offsets, made of whitewashed cob and rubble, and a pantiled roof, with brick stacks at the gable ends. The 20th-century alterations include changes to most openings, with a square-headed through-passage door featuring a roll-moulded chamfered and stopped surround, topped by a pantiled canopy.

Inside, there is a shouldered doorframe at the upper end of the hall and a chamfered timber lintel above the fireplace. A large beam just below the fireplace is roughly chamfered on one end and rounded off on the hall side, likely indicating a former jetty, although the roof timbers have been entirely replaced in the 20th century. The rubble barn at the rear includes a wooden loft door above a stable plank door, with ventilation slits at each end. There is also a first-floor plank door at the left gable end, with a timber lintel. The cob barn has a pantiled roof.

The farmhouse is oriented gable-end to the street and, along with Town Farm, represents a centrally-placed former village farmhouse within Braunton's historic cellular town plan, which is a nucleated settlement that retains its open field system known as the West Field.