Barton Abbey

Barton Abbey is a house built around 1570 for John Dormer, with alterations made in the late 17th century. It was rebuilt between 1849 and 1862 by S.S. Teulon for Henry Hall, with further changes around 1890. The building is constructed from squared and coursed ironstone and features a gabled stone slate roof with moulded stone coping and moulded ashlar stacks. It has a linear plan with a service wing on the left and is designed in the Tudor Picturesque style.

The house has two storeys and an attic, with an asymmetrical gabled front that includes a 10-window range. A two-storey porch features corner buttresses, a Perpendicular-style doorway, a studded door, and an oriel window above with hollow-moulded stone-mullioned and arch-headed lights. There are hood moulds over similar windows and three-light mullioned windows, some of which are transomed. To the right, there is a three-bay crenellated loggia dating from around 1890. A one-storey service range extends from the front to connect with the stables.

The right-end gable has a gabled dormer set on a canted bay, and the rear features a canted bay with a French-style pyramidal roof. The centre of the rear elevation includes two gables and a polygonal stair-turret from the late 16th century, with hood moulds over similar mullioned windows of up to four lights, as well as a chamfered light and hood mould over a four-centred arched doorway leading to the stair-turret. There is also a mid to late 19th-century block with a pyramidal roof at the rear left.

Inside, the house features mid-19th century panelling and Jacobean-style carved overmantels in the main three ground floor rooms, along with an elaborate dog-leg staircase in the central stair hall. The late 16th-century stair-turret at the rear has a closed well staircase with stop-chamfered doorways, a 17th-century panelled door to the attic, and a four-centred moulded wood doorway with carved spandrels. The house is named Barton Abbey due to a mistaken belief that it was built on the site of a former cell of Osney Abbey.