Bickington Barton

Farmhouse. Dating from the 16th century, it was remodelled in the early 19th century, with a 20th-century addition to the south-east corner. The walls are likely stone, rendered and solid. It has a hipped slate roof with a chimneystack on each gable. The original layout was L-shaped, with a three-room and through-passage plan, including a parlour at the upper end. In the 19th century, a staircase was inserted into the through-passage, a new chimneystack was added to the hall (which was reduced in depth to make room for a rear corridor). The front has two storeys and a four-window facade, with eight-pane sashes in all but the left-hand ground-floor window, which has a 20th-century metal casement. The doorway, in the second bay from the right, has double, three-panelled doors with the top two panels glazed, a patterned fanlight, and panelled reveals. A porch features two unfluted Doric granite columns with unusual capitals and no bases, topped by a flat, moulded granite hood. Inside, at the upper end of the hall is a plank-and-muntin screen with chamfered studs having oddly angled diagonal-cut stops. The opposite (parlour) side of the screen has studs with three-quarter-round mouldings and a moulded head-beam. The parlour also has a large gable fireplace with a segmental arch. A dado of reset late 16th or early 17th-century panelling is present, with carved faces on some of the panels. A 20th-century gable fireplace with an old wood lintel is found at the lower end. A chamfered beam is in the ground-storey room of the rear wing to the south. The roof space was not inspected, and no roof timbers are visible in the upper storey. The surrounding farm buildings include a separate listing for a collection of pigsties.