George Teign Barton

George Teign Barton is a farmhouse, likely dating back to the 16th century, but significantly remodelled around the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The exterior is whitewashed stone rubble with a thatched roof, gabled at the left end and hipped at the end of a wing; the rear outshut has a slate roof. There are brick stacks, including a left-end stack, an axial stack, and a projecting end stack with set-offs and a bread oven to the outshut.

The building has an L-shaped plan. The original layout probably included three rooms and a through passage, although the lower end and passage were rebuilt in the late 18th or early 19th century, coinciding with a re-roofing of the main block. A later 19th-century roof covers most of the wing. The outshut may have originally been part of a 17th-century rear kitchen wing. The long front wing, set at right angles to the main block, served as service accommodation and a cider house, previously with an apple loft above.

The front has an asymmetrical four-window arrangement with a change in roofline and front plane to the right of the front door, which leads into a truncated passage positioned to the left of centre. A thatched porch supported by posts sits at the front. The left side of the front has early 19th-century, 16-pane timber sash windows while the right side has 20th-century timber casement windows with glazing bars. The wing features timber casement windows, a door in the centre, and another door at the extreme right leading to an outbuilding, alongside two ground floor windows and one loft opening.

Inside, the middle room of the main block has an open fireplace with a dressed timber lintel, granite jambs (one being a chamfered monolith), and a bread oven. New replacement cross beams and exposed joists are present. Granite steps and some pitched stone flooring connect the middle room with the passage, where a late 18th or 19th-century staircase with turned newels and stick balusters can be found. Good granite ashlar is visible on the rear of the stack, a typical feature in the region. The outshut features an open fireplace, a timber lintel, and a bread oven, and its stack likely dates back to the 17th century. A plain timber staircase, probably from the 18th century, is located within the wing, and remnants of wall and ceiling plaster suggest previous domestic use. The roof incorporates late 19th-century scissor-braced trusses, with a potentially earlier collar rafter roof in the section adjoining the main block and in the main block itself.

George Teign Barton is a large, attractive thatched house that forms a notable group with the adjacent barn.