Barton Mere House

TL 96 NW PAKENHAM BARTON MERE

2/121 Barton Mere House 14.7.55 II*

House. C16, basic 2-cell end chimney plan, extended in early C17, mid C18 and early C19: now T-shaped form. Part 2 storeys, part 2 storeys and attics. Timber-framed and plastered, part faced in gault brick. Pantiled roofs. Internal chimney stack to main range with 4 plain square attached shafts. Principal (west) front has a slightly projecting gable at its north end: rusticated plaster quoins and one tripartite sash window to each storey. Remainder of front has early C19 small-paned sashes in flush frames, 2 gabled dormers with small-paned casements to attics. Early C19 single-storey entrance porch in the angle of the west and north walls: 2 small-paned sash windows, door with segmental arched head to surround. To north and east of this range, a court yard, which formerly contained outbuildings, surrounded on 3 sides by early C19 red brick walls with wedge-shaped buttresses. On the east side, the cross-wing has an eaves overhang supported on brackets, and below it a 5-light oriel window with ovolo-moulded mullions and diamond-leaded panes. One late C17 sash window to upper storey with heavy glazing bars, and another on the north wall above the porch. Mid C18 garden (south) range, extended in early C19. Faced in gault brick: plain plaster parapet, 4 ball finials. 5 bays: 1,2,3,2,1. Outer bays have single storey flat roofed bay windows with tripartite and single small paned sashes: tripartite sashes to upper storey. Remaining windows, small paned sashes in flush frames. Central doorway with open triangular pediment and half-glazed door. Good internal features: carved C16 fireplace lintel, heavy timbering: 2 floors laid with C18 limestone squares and black 'dots'. Ornate early and later C18 fireplace surrounds, 2 with steel duck's nest grates. Early C17, early and late C18 panelling, early C19 geometrical stair.

Listing NGR: TL9109366950