Description

SX 25 NE MORVAL MORVAL

4/70 Morval Farmhouse and barn adjoining
- to rear

GV II

Barton Farmhouse to Morval Estate including barn adjoining to rear. Probably C17
origin partly rebuilt in mid C19. Rendered stone rubble with slate roof with gable
ends and sprocketted eaves. Rendered stone rubble projecting chimney stacks with
moulded caps on gable ends, rendered rear lateral chimney stack to hall and evidence
of projection on front to right of porch possibly for earlier front lateral chimney
stack. Further parallel range to rear of hall and through passage with slate roof
with gable ends; projecting wing to rear of inner room of stone rubble and cob with
slate roof with gable end; projecting wing to rear of lower end of partly rendered
stone rubble with corrugated asbestos roof with hipped end on right at junction with
front range and gable end on left; stone rubble barn adjoining latter rear wing at
right angles, parallel to main range of house, enclosing fourth side of cobbled
coutyard.
Farmhouse probably originally of 3 room and through passage plan with lower room and
inner room possibly heated by projecting gable end stacks with hall heated by rear
lateral stack. Further extended to rear in circa C18 with 2-storey gabled wing
containing apple store to rear of inner room; kitchen range added to rear of hall and
through passage in early to mid C19 with wide continuation of through passage,
slightly off set; 1-room rear wing added to rear of lower end in circa late C18 or
early C19, further extended in mid C19 comprising 3-room plan with passage through to
inner courtyard; barn added on fourth side of cobbled courtyard, parallel to house in
circa mid C19. Front 3-room range probably rebuilt in mid C19 adopting the
traditional 3 room and through passage plan with a 2-storey porch but with a wider
passage to contain the stairs.
2 storey regular 4-window front with C19 casements. 2-storey porch to left of centre
with dressed stone 4-centred C19 arch within with heavy C19 diagonally planked door.
To left, 3-light casement and to right 4-light casement window to hall and 3-light
casement to inner room, all in segmental arched openings. First floor with four 3-
light casements above ground floor openings. Second window in porch with dressed
stone surround, rusticated granite lintel and flanked in side walls of porch by 2-
light casements. Rear elevation of remodelled C17 range with 2 gabled dormers and
further gabled dormer above stair with casements in rear elevation of early to mid
C19 range. Rear wing on left, to rear of lower end, with asymmetrical 2-window
front; left-hand side with stone rubble ramp leading up to plank door of loft, open
through passage to left of centre leading through to courtyard with C19 1-light
casement to right. First floor with C19 2-light casement with diagonal glazing bars
above passage and 2-light casement to right. Cobbled courtyard to rear with 2-storey
barn with plank doors on ground floor and 3 double louvered opening above.
Interior of rebuilt C17 range with C19 stair in wide passage, high plastered
ceilings with C19 chimney pieces to hall and lower end and C20 chimney piece to inner
room. Roof structure with circa C19 roof to main range (partly sealed and full
access not possible); pegged circa early to mid C19 king post truss roof to kitchen
range and steeply pitched roof above apple chamber not accessible with feet of
principals boxed in.
Morval Barton was the demesne farm of the manor, the farmhouse lying 170m to the
north west of Morval House (qv). Farm accounts of the Barton survive from 1743-45
(Anthony: BA/20/17b) and 1752 to 1767 (Cornwall Record Office : BU 51) and are
discussed by N.J.G. Pounds who compares them with surviving accounts for Golden
Barton (qv in Probus Parish) and Keveral Barton (qv in St Martin Parish) also owned
by the Buller family.
see
Pounds, N.J.G. 'Barton Farming in Eighteenth Century Cornwall' Journal of the Royal
Institution of Cornwall, New Series, Volume VII, Part I, 1973, 55-75.

Listing NGR: SX2578156733

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26598467

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