Hayne Barton

SX 89 SE 4/103

WHITESTONE Hayne Barton

II

House. 1808 (Braddick). Whitewashed rendered cob; slate roof half-hipped at ends; brick stack at right end, brick axial stack. Double depth 4-room plan with a central entrance passage containing the stair with heated rooms on either side at the front, the right-hand room heated from the gable end stack, the left-hand room from the axial stack which also serves the former kitchen to rear left. The partition between the front and rear right-hand rooms has been removed. A large cellar runs the length of the house under the front rooms. 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-bay front with C20 glazed front door under a false fanlight and a flat porch canopy. The first floor central window is a fixed 12-pane window; 16-pane sashes to left and right, the left-hand window a C20 copy; large 24-pane ground floor sashes. The rear of the house, facing the farmyard has some original sashes and C20 inserted sashes. Interior Marble chimney-pieces to both front rooms, large brick fireplace (partly rebuilt) to old kitchen. Stair with stick balusters and a ramped handrail. A flight of Heavitree stone steps leads down to the cellar which has a pitched stone floor with a drain, it may have been used as a cider cellar. A compact early C19 farmhouse. According to Braddick the house was rebuilt in 1808.. Braddick, L.E. "Whitestone and Oldridge", T.D.A, vol XIIV, (1962) pp. 339-362, p. 349.

Listing NGR: SX8654493447