Barton Court

SO 74 SW COLWALL CP B 4218 (north side)

3/44 Barton Court

6.3.67

GV II

House. Circa 1785 for Henry Lambert. Brick, diminishing course hipped slate roof. 2 storeys on basement, dentilled eaves cornice, 2:1:3 bays, glazing bar sashes to first floor, plate glass to ground floor, exposed boxes; entrance in slight pedimented break, lunette in gable, stone band below, Venetian window on first floor with stone dressings, stepped key- stone and bracketed cills, tripartite 1820s porch on ground floor repeating the proportions, half glazed doors; C20 porthole window immediately left of porch. Roughly 'L' plan with mid-C19 infill to form rectangular plan, later lower extensions to north east and a 1920s angled loggia at junction. Interior: the principal room is on ground floor to right in Adam style (wall and ceiling panels, fretted door heads), staircase probably mid-C19, mahogany hand rail and square shaped balusters. Timber-framing of very thin scantling to rear of C19 part visible from window of inner wall; shutters and doors have square fielded panels. On landing and first floor corridors, heavily moulded elliptical arch doorways. Dining-room (ground floor left hand side) 1920s in Adam style incorporating a late C18 marble fireplace. Adam style decoration in hall.

Listing NGR: SO7420140894