Week Barton

Week Barton is a house, formerly a farmhouse, dating from the late 16th century to early 17th century, possibly with earlier origins, and includes a 19th-century addition. The building features rendered cob and stone rubble walls with a concrete tile roof that is hipped at each end of the main block and gabled to the rear wings. It has three brick stacks: one axial, one at the right-hand end, and one at the gable end of the left-hand wing.

The layout consists of a three-room and through-passage plan, with the lower end to the right containing a fireplace in the end wall, a hall heated by a stack at the inner end, an unheated inner room, and a one-room wing behind it with a gable end fireplace. There is likely a 19th-century outbuilding or service wing added behind the lower room.

The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical four-window front. It has three-light early 20th-century casements on the first floor and to the left on the ground floor, along with two taller mid-20th-century casements to the right. A wide 19th-century six-panel door leads to the passage at the right of centre, which is sheltered by a 19th-century bracketed door hood.

Inside, the left-hand rear wing features moulded cross beams and an open fireplace with a wooden lintel. A plank and muntin screen separates the hall from the inner room, which has been altered by the insertion of a stack at the centre. The hall includes an axial ovolo-moulded ceiling beam. The roof has not been inspected.