Court Barton

AVETON GIFFORD VILLAGE CENTRE SX 64 NE 4/36 Court Barton 26.1.67 GV II Farmhouse. C17 and late C19. Thin bedded slate-stone rubble, slate roofs to clay tile ridges, stacks raised in brick. Was a 3-room cross-passage plan with 2-storey gabled porch and external stair turret. In late C19 the section to left of porch rebuilt; also a range added parallel with main block at back, and wing at right angles, back right. Two storeys: to left of porch a 2-light case- ment over French doors, both to brick segmental arches. Wavy bargeboard. Porch has 2-light casement above plain string course over arched opening with small hollow mould edge; to the right are two 3-light casements and a French door, formerly also a casement. First floor has three 3-light casements with glazing bars. The right return, built into the slopes of the churchyard, is plain, with a big stone stack raised in brick; the corner is in part corbelled out. The back wing joins at ridge level to show a half gable. The left end returns plain to a gable with wavy bargeboard and small brick stack. Ridge stack to right of cross-passage. At the back the curved wall of the stair turret has a small deep-set 2-light casement, wing has a 16-pane sash over 3-light casement to wood lintel, a 2-light, and plank door; to right a 3-light glazing bar casement over 2-light with horizontal bars. Interior: stone floor to cross-passage, now blocked at the back; inner door to porch has basket-handle, arch is plank and fillet with nail-head. Parlour to right has 3 boxed beams, and in cross corridor is a cupboard recess with fluted pilasters and Greek key embellish- ment. Heavy transverse beam also to kitchen. Early stair is big spiral, in wood; at its top is a peaked-head doorway into the corridor. The Victorian addition has a straight stair with heavy newels, running parallel with back wall. Roof trusses in the early section are pegged, with cambered ties, and unusually close-spaced. An early photograph in the house shows the building before the Victorian transformation, when there was a tripartite sash to the left of the porch. The farm is in an important position on the approach to the Church of St Andrew (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SX6952647810