Westcott Barton

Westcott Barton is a farmhouse, formerly a manor house, likely dating from the late 16th century, although it may include earlier materials. There is a later addition at the rear. The building is made of rendered stone and has a half-hipped slate roof, with two storeys. The 16th-century part features a three-cell and cross passage plan. An early 18th-century two-storey kitchen extension projects east to the rear, along with another two-storey extension that projects south at a right angle from the kitchen block. A semi-circular arched stone porch connects this extension to the main structure.

The house has an axial brick and stone stack at the upper end of the hall and a large lateral stack at the lower end, which is chamfered to an octagonal shape on the west face. To the right, there is a three-light casement window, and to the left, five stone buttresses with slated set-offs rise only to the first floor level. The two nearest stacks flank a 20th-century doorway. To the left of these, the other three buttresses flank a two-light casement window in the right-hand section. A slated label runs from the upper end to the second buttress. Above this, from left to right, there is a four-light casement, a single-light casement between two two-light casements, and then a square four-paned window to the left of a pair of two-light casements. The projecting south end of the 16th-century fabric has a tripartite window with glazing bars and four-paned sidelight sashes, with a sash window featuring glazing bars above.

To the right of the round-arched stone porch with a moulded square-headed doorway, there is a single sash window with glazing bars on each floor. Inside, alterations have removed most original features, including the roof timbers, but there is a square-headed moulded cross passage doorway to the left inside the entrance porch. The hall contains two roughly chamfered beams and a reused timber in the hall chimney lintel.