Hele Barton

Hele Barton is a farmhouse with origins dating back to the early 17th century or earlier, which underwent significant remodeling in the early to mid-17th century and has 19th-century additions. The structure features rendered cob and rubble walls, topped with a slate roof that is gabled at the right end and hipped at the left. It has four brick stacks, including two axial stacks, one at the right gable end, and one rear lateral stack on the left-hand section.

The original plan was likely a three-room-and-through-passage layout, but only the left-hand room is clearly part of the old house. This room is unusual as it has two lateral fireplaces—one on the front wall and one on the rear. The rest of the house consists of two main rooms with a stair hall, which, while clearly 19th-century in character, has an asymmetrical form suggesting it is a heavy remodeling of an older structure rather than a completely new build. There is also a 19th-century service wing at the rear with a lean-to adjoining it.

The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical five-window front. The left side features a lower one-window range representing the older part of the house, which has a 20th-century three-light casement to the left of a large chimney stack projection, now truncated at the eaves. The taller range has early 19th-century 16-pane sashes on both the first and ground floors to the right, and a 20-pane tripartite sash on the ground floor to the left. A gabled 19th-century porch with a round-arched doorway is located to the right of center, featuring a six-panel door behind it. A lean-to is present against the left-hand end, and at the rear, there is a hipped wing with an outshut on its right-hand side.

Inside, the left-hand end room has a 17th-century lateral fireplace at the front with roll-moulded jambs and a wooden lintel that has been partially hacked off. It also features a heavy chamfered ceiling beam. On the rear wall of this room is a 19th-century open fireplace. The remodeled right-hand part of the house includes 19th-century joinery, such as six-panelled doors and a staircase with chamfered balusters and a newel post.