Cranmer Barton

Cranmer Barton is a farmhouse, likely dating to the early 17th century or earlier, with significant refurbishment in the 18th century. The walls are whitewashed cob on stone footings, with a red tiled roof, gabled at the left end and half-hipped at the right end. There are axial stacks with stone and handmade brick shafts, a left-end stack with a modern brick shaft, and a lateral stack to the rear wing. The building has a T-shaped plan, consisting of a south-facing main range and a rear wing at a right angle.

The main range, originally probably three rooms wide, has been reduced to two rooms with a cross passage to the left of centre. A lower end parlour is also present. An external winder stair projects from the rear wall. The rear right wing may have originated in the 17th century, evidenced by a mullioned window, but was likely converted to a kitchen wing in the 18th century and subsequently to a parlour and kitchen.

The front elevation is asymmetrical, with five window bays. A 20th-century plank front door is set within a Victorian gabled porch with a slate roof and a segmental arched doorway. The ground floor has three 3-light casements with probably early 19th-century diamond-paned windows, while the first floor has 2- and 3-light 19th or 20th-century timber casements with glazing bars. The inner return of the wing features two first-floor mullioned windows, one of which has a section of 15th or early 16th-century timber traceried frieze, not in situ, nailed to the top.

Inside, a plank and muntin screen is located on the lower side of the passage; the passage side is chamfered and the screen is plastered over on the lower end side. A late 17th-century 2-panel door leads from the passage into the lower end room, which features good plaster cornices with simple fleur de lis motifs. The right-hand room has a plastered-over axial beam that stops short at the former partition with the inner room. A 1950s fireplace conceals an earlier one. The rear right room is a mid/late 19th-century parlour with a contemporary chimney-piece. The adjacent kitchen has plain carpentry detail and two bread ovens in the fireplace. A service stair rises from the kitchen. 18th-century 2-panel doors on the first floor suggest the insertion of an axial first-floor passage at this date.

The roof structure comprises one side of pegged jointed crucks, while the remainder of the house was re-roofed in the 18th century with X-apex A frames, all below 20th-century roof timbers.