page_title: Stowe, Kilkhampton
section_title: Stowe Barton
hierarchical_section_title: Stowe, Kilkhampton / Stowe Barton
caption_attribution_description: English: Stowe Barton Farm - a closer view The Farm and the GCHQ listening station. The dip at the side of the road is an ancient "drive-thru" pond designed for cleaning the wheels of carriages.
context_page_description: Stowe House in the parish of Kilkhampton in Cornwall, England, UK, was a mansion built in 1679 by John Grenville, 1st Earl of Bath and demolished in 1739. The Grenville family were for many centuries lords of the manor of Kilkhampton, which they held from the feudal barony of Gloucester, as they did their other principal seat of nearby Bideford in Devon. It is possible that the family's original residence at Kilkhampton was Kilkhampton Castle, of which only the groundworks survive, unusual in that it had a motte with two baileys.
context_section_description: A range of stone buildings around a large courtyard, including a seven bedroom barton house with the Grenville arms sculpted above the front door, survives, located between the site of the demolished mansion and a surviving overgrown sunken garden believed to have adjoined the Tudor mansion house. The history of this barton house is not well recorded. Harper (1910) wrote:
  All around, in the pastures of Stowe Farm, may be traced the grassy mounds and hollows that mark the foundations and the terraces of the vanished house, and the meadow immediately in front of the farmhouse is very largely pitched with a pavement of cobble-stones, a little beneath the surface. The grumbling farmer, on an evening tour of inspection of his gates, left open as a rule by trespassing Bude visitors, showed fragments of pillars and architectural carving often dug up. "Look here", he said, crossing the road and pointing to a sunken space in a field, "that is where they brought up their early vegetables".
  The "Stowe Barton Farm" estate is now owned by the National Trust and comprises 218 hectares (537 acres) of farmland and 5.77 hectares (14.25 acres) of woodland. It was offered to let by the National Trust in July 2014.
caption: A closer view of the farm, with carriage washing pool
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