Yarn Barton And Queens Barton

SOUTH PETHERTON CP SOUTH STREET (East side) ST4316 7/167 No 7 (Yarn Barton) and No 9 (Queens Barton) 7.10.76

GV II

Detached house now subdivided. Possibly C17, remodelled in C18 and C19 and extended early in C20. Ham stone ashlar; Welsh slate roofs between stepped coped gables to steep pitch; brick chimney stacks. Two storeys with attic, 6 bays. Ovolo-mould mullioned windows in wave-mould recesses, fitted with horizontal-bar lights having 4-centre-arced heads; 3-light, to upper bays 1, 2, 3 and 5, and lower bays 1, 3 and 5, 2-light mullioned and transomed to upper bay 4 and a singlelight below a 2-light to bay 6; labels shared across bays 1 to 3 both levels, across upper bays 4 and 5 and lower bays 5 and 6: to lower bay 2 an ovolo-mould flat-arched doorway with deep recess, fielded panel reveals to C19 door. In north gable are three 4-pane sash windows with simple architraves, and in south gable a moulded single-light under label to attic, and a 2-light and a 3-light to first floor sharing a label, below being a flat-roofed bow-fronted extension with a 2-light casement and plain door to east. Interior not seen, but reported is a through-passage plan 2 rooms deep, with rear extension originally single-storey, now raised: front rooms have fielded panelling, window shutters. 9 stone fireplace of C17 or C18, and collar truss roof; some blocked windows in north wall now masked by no 5 j,', which is dated 1741). (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, 1978).

Listing NGR: ST4347516691