Barramoor Farmhouse

Barramoor Farmhouse is probably of circa mid-17th century origin, with later alterations. It is constructed of rendered granite rubble walls, with brick repairs visible on the left-hand side of the front wall. Two granite rubble axial stacks feature dripmoulds, and the roof is covered in slate, hipped to the left and half-hipped to the right. The plan is somewhat obscured by alterations, but originally comprised a shippon and calf house to the left, a house to the centre, and a stable to the right, possibly all integral. The house lacks a discernible passage from front to back and now has a longitudinal passage at the front on one side, with large rooms at either end and a staircase and dairy situated between them. Each main room has a fireplace in the end wall, dividing it from the adjoining outbuilding. It is two storeys high. To the left, the shippon and calf house have two ground-floor doorways. The front of the house has an asymmetrical four-window arrangement, with two windows and a roughly central door on the ground floor. Most windows are probably early 20th-century two-light casements with glazing bars, except for the ground and first floor right, where there is a 3-light 20th-century plank door within a breeze block rendered lean-to porch with a slate roof. To the right of the house is a stable, with a possible straight joint between them. The stable has a doorway to the left and a window to the right on the ground floor. At the rear, outshuts extend to the left and right ends, with irregular windows in between. The right-hand gable end features a loading door for the loft above the stable. The interior contains some early features. The left-hand room has a large open fireplace with a heavy granite lintel, hollow chamfered with worn stops. The right-hand main room contains a stone newel staircase rising beside a blocked fireplace which apparently contained an oven. A cross beam is chamfered with hollow step stops, running across the adjoining dairy and passage. A partial roof inspection revealed substantial timbers, likely dating from the 17th to 18th centuries. The farmhouse is interesting because its plan appears to be derived from a longhouse but lacks internal access from the house to the shippon. The house plan does not conform to the common 3-room-and-through-passage type, but is an interesting example of a transitional plan, featuring an unheated central room.