Dorsely Barton

Farmhouse, dating from the late 16th or early 17th century, with later alterations and additions in the early to mid 19th century. The building is constructed of rendered stone rubble with parallel slate roofs and gabled ends. Gable end stacks are rendered, and there is a truncated lateral stack at the rear. The original north range likely had a two or three-room plan. It features a lateral stack in the centre of the rear wall, with a newel staircase to the left of the stack, and another stack at the lower left end. Internal partitions were removed, likely in the early to mid 19th century, when a parallel range was added to the front. This extension has a two-room plan with a central entrance and stairhall. The south front is almost symmetrical, with three windows. It has large 20th-century casements in openings that formerly held three-light sash windows; a narrower window is located on the first floor. The doorway to the left of the centre has stuccoed pilasters, an entablature, a semi-circular fanlight, and a glazed and panelled door. A tall, narrow stair window is positioned to the right of the doorway, featuring a round head and glazing bars. Inside the front range is an early 19th-century open-well staircase at the centre, with stick balusters and a moulded handrail that ramps up to turned newels. Most of the early 19th-century internal joinery remains. The original back range has chamfered ceiling beams with stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops and newel stairs beside the stack on the rear wall of the lower end, featuring wooden treads and a simple early 19th-century balustrade at the top. The roof over the back range is six bays and includes straight principal rafters with mortise and tenon joints to cambered collars and two tiers of threaded purlins; the threaded diagonal ridgepiece is missing, and later rafters have been added. A small bakehouse extension with a large gable end stack is located at the rear of the right-hand end, with a doorway having a slate canopy to the left.