Description

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SX0766 LAUNCESTON ROAD
629-1/3/75 (South East side)
Barn Park

GV II

Small country house. Early/mid C19, on an older site, slightly
remodelled mid/late C19.
MATERIALS: incised stucco on rubble with granite ashlar
plinth; rag slate hipped roofs with projecting eaves on shaped
wooden brackets; stuccoed end stacks and 1 surviving lateral
stack to left of entrance front.
PLAN: L-shaped plan with 2-room-plan garden front,
kitchen/living room on left of entrance front, large
entrance/stair hall between lean-to study behind stair hall
and pantry at far left of entrance front with service stair
behind.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys plus attics; 2-window-range entrance
front. 3 original hornless sashes with glazing bars and 1
horned copy to ground floor left, all windows under shallow
segmental arches and left-of-central round-arched doorway with
2-spoked fanlight and glazed and panelled door with flush
bottom panels; later C19 lean-to glazed porch with fairly
small panes and original glazed door to its right-hand return;
cast-iron door high up on right. 1:2-bay garden front with
left-hand bay broken forward; paired round-arched 2-pane
horned sashes on left, otherwise segmental arches over 4-pane
horned sashes; C20 conservatory on the right.
Rear has original hornless sashes with glazing bars and
round-arched horned stair sash. In the angle is a narrow
hipped roof over small chamber with single-storey lean-to on
its right; 2 raking roof dormers with original 6-pane hornless
sashes.
INTERIOR: virtually unaltered since the early/mid C19:
open-well staircase with open string, scrolled brackets, stick
balusters and handrail scrolled over newels; moulded plaster
ceiling cornices to entrance hall and reception rooms;
panelled shutters and reveals; some mid C19 chimneypieces with
iron grates; slate floor to pantry and steep service
staircase.
Barn Park stands in a mature garden and is part of a planned
group of structures including garden wall, shippon and well
house, barn with carriage houses and gate piers and screen
walls.

Listing NGR: SX0798166781

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26489866

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Recommended Books

• 
  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)