Romansleigh Barton

Romansleigh Barton is a farmhouse dating from around the mid-17th century, with some minor alterations from the 19th and 20th centuries. The building is constructed of rubble and cob, finished with roughcast and whitewash, and features hipped and gabled roofs covered in asbestos slates, along with three tall roughcast chimney stacks.

The layout consists of a single room depth and a three-room plan. The entrance is on the left, leading into a lobby situated between the two left rooms, which are likely the hall and parlour, separated by a large back-to-back chimney stack. The kitchen is located at the extreme right, featuring a gable-end fireplace and accessed through a secondary door at the front. A large two-storey porch projects over the main entrance.

The exterior has two storeys with a window arrangement of 1:1:3. The left bay contains sash windows with glazing bars on both floors, with exposed sash boxes. The center bay has a projecting porch, and a 20th-century casement window on the first floor, while the ground floor has a segmental-headed outer opening that leads to an interior bench. The right three bays feature 20th-century two and three-light casements, a door leading to the kitchen with a 20th-century plank door, and a 20th-century gabled porch.

Inside, there is 19th-century panelling between the kitchen and the central room. The kitchen has a roughly-chamfered cross ceiling beam and a gable-end fireplace with a 19th-century cambered brick arch. The roof is a complete 17th-century structure, consisting of four trusses with morticed ridge, halved, lapped, and pegged collars, and purlins resting on the backs of the principal rafters.