Court Barton Including Walls To The Garden To The East

A farmhouse, divided into two dwellings, dates to around the late 17th century, with 19th and 20th-century renovations, and may incorporate fabric from an earlier building on the site. The construction is of stone rubble, with some ashlar dressings, and has a slate roof, hipped at the ends, along with axial brick stacks. Stone rubble walls bound the garden to the east of the house. The building is arranged with an almost symmetrical plan of four rooms, a central entrance into a through passage, and larger rooms flanking the passage, with smaller rooms at the far left and right. An outshut contains the staircase and service rooms. Re-used timbers discovered during renovations suggest a possible earlier structure. The exterior is a handsome, symmetrical five-bay front with a central two-storey porch featuring a hipped slate roof. It has 20th-century transomed casements, likely reproductions of the original design, with two-light windows in the outer bays and the porch, and three-light windows flanking the porch. Dormers are present on the front, rear, and ends of the roof. The porch has a timber lintel above the outer doorway and a 19th-century half-glazed inner door. The garden walls, likely dating to the late 17th century, enclose the garden in front of the house. The interior is surprisingly plain, though there may have been decorated plasterwork at one time. The right-hand end of the house was inspected during a survey in 1988, revealing a good open fireplace with splayed Beerstone jambs and a chamfered scroll-stopped lintel in the larger room. The smaller right-hand room’s fireplace has been largely rebuilt. The two left-hand rooms are reportedly only slightly different in size. The rear right room in the outshut retains a pulley related to pig-killing. 19th-century joinery features include panelled doors and a probable 19th-century staircase with plain splat balusters in the rear right outshut. Upstairs, the feet of A-frame trusses are visible, featuring threaded purlins and end pegs. The joists over the porch are re-used charred mullions. The building has historical links to a branch of the Trevelyan family of St Veep, Cornwall, who resided there in the 16th century. It is a handsome and high-status late 17th-century house, contributing to the group value alongside separately listed farmbuildings.