Barton Mere House

Barton Mere House is a house dating from the 16th century, originally built with a basic two-cell end chimney plan, and extended in the early 17th century, mid 18th century, and early 19th century, resulting in a T-shaped form. The building is part two storeys and part two storeys with attics, constructed from timber framing and plaster, with some sections faced in gault brick, and features pantiled roofs.

The principal front, facing west, has a slightly projecting gable at the north end, with rusticated plaster quoins and one tripartite sash window on each storey. The rest of the front features early 19th-century small-paned sashes in flush frames, along with two gabled dormers that have small-paned casements in the attic. There is an early 19th-century single-storey entrance porch at the angle of the west and north walls, which includes two small-paned sash windows and a door with a segmental arched head.

To the north and east of the main range, there is a courtyard that once held outbuildings, surrounded on three sides by early 19th-century red brick walls with wedge-shaped buttresses. The cross-wing on the east side has an eaves overhang supported by brackets, and beneath it is a five-light oriel window with ovolo-moulded mullions and diamond-leaded panes. There is also a late 17th-century sash window on the upper storey with heavy glazing bars, and another above the porch on the north wall.

The mid-18th-century garden range to the south has been extended in the early 19th century and is faced in gault brick, featuring a plain plaster parapet and four ball finials. This range has five bays arranged as 1,2,3,2,1, with the outer bays having single-storey flat-roofed bay windows with tripartite and single small-paned sashes, while the upper storey has tripartite sashes. The remaining windows are small-paned sashes in flush frames, and there is a central doorway with an open triangular pediment and a half-glazed door.

Inside, there are notable features including a carved 16th-century fireplace lintel, heavy timbering, and two floors laid with 18th-century limestone squares and black 'dots'. There are ornate fireplace surrounds from the early and later 18th century, two of which have steel duck's nest grates, as well as early 17th-century, early and late 18th-century panelling, and an early 19th-century geometrical stair.