Description

BRENDON
SS 74 NW
3/1 Brendon Barton
- II
Barton, now farmhouse. Early to mid C17, possibly a remodelling of an earlier
house. Late C19 cross wing to south-west. Lean-to additions also probably C19.
Mainly pebble-dashed coursed rubble stone. Slate hanging to C19 wing. Rendered
stacks with weatherings, brick stacks to C19 wing. Gable-ended slate roofs, hipped
over upper end wing.
Plan and development: 3-room-and-through-passage plan (facing north-west), with
former service end to right and inner room with later front parlour wing to left,
kitchen and dairy at time of survey respectively (July 1987). Possibly former
medieval open hall floored in the C19 but no positive evidence for this was noted at
time of survey. Axial stack at lower end of hall and external lateral stack to rear
of lower room. Parlour wing (dairy at time of survey) (July 1987) added to front at
higher end, probably in the early to mid C17. Staircase inserted in through
passage, probably in the late C19 (see blocked rear through-passage doorway). Late
C19 cross wing added at service end, with integral end stacks. 2 storeys.
Exterior: asymmetrical 4-window front to north-west; mainly C19 two and 3-light
wooden casements, C20 3-light first floor metal casement to left-hand wing.
Weatherings above right-hand ground floor window. Central late C19 boarded door
with 4 glazed lights at top and pegged frame. Wide battered buttresses to right of
right-hand ground floor window and narrow battered buttress to right of left-hand
cross wing. Lean-to in angle of left-hand cross wing incorporating open fronted
shed to left and probable kennel to right, with boarded door. C19 cross wing
projecting to right with small first floor window; 3-bay south-west front of cross
wing with margin-light sashes and central half-glazed door. Left-hand gable-end of
main range with central boarded door and battered buttress to right. Short lean-to
outshut in angle of wing at rear with blocked through-passage doorway visible
inside. Inserted half-glazed door in rear of hall, with porch.
Interior: chamfered cross beams in hall and inner room and chamfered beam between
inner room and front parlour wing. Stone fireplace of circa 1900 in hall, brought
in from Coombe House, Porlock in mid to late C20, but retaining late C19 overmantel
with key and scrolled brackets. C19 matchboarding to hall. Slate shelves in dairy
(former parlour wing). C19 cross wing, first floor rooms and roof not inspected at
time of survey (July 1987).

Listing NGR: SS7477447293

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26577661

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  For the Record
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]