Great Barton Farmhouse And Attached Outbuilding To South West

Farmhouse. Built in the early to mid-17th century. It is constructed of cob, with a brick plinth, and plastered walls under a wheat-reed thatched roof. The farmhouse has a main range with projecting cross-wings, though the right-hand wing has been partially dismantled at the rear. It is two storeys high. The front of the main range has a central doorway sheltered by a porch with scrolled brackets. The door is made of nine panels with studded muntins. There are three-light timber casement windows on each floor to the left, and two-light casements on each floor to the right, each with six panes per light. The wings have one three-light window to each floor, with eight panes to upper windows and six each to lower windows. All of the front windows are replacements made to resemble the original design, dating from 1960. There are two brick lateral stacks at the rear and two end stacks. A rear outbuilding, under a catslide roof and dating from the 19th century, adjoins the farmhouse. On the rear of the partially dismantled wing, there is a three-light window with a large side oven and a salt ledge. A timber lintel with a mason’s mitre and stone jambs with concave mouldings are visible above an end fireplace. The lower room at the front of the right-hand wing contains an ovolo moulded beam, an end fireplace with a wooden lintel and stone jambs with ovolo mouldings, and fragmentary 17th-century plaster cornices that extend into a rear room. Some late 18th-century panelling is also present. The roof space has not been inspected, but roof principals are partly visible in the upper rooms. The main range features lapped purlins trenched into principals, with a collar at ceiling level. Each wing retains one blade of a jointed cruck, with the blade on the right-hand wing having a small chamfer, both are side-pegged. On the outer side of both wings are side pegs. Remains of an upper smoking chamber are visible at first-floor level to the side of the end stack of the left-hand wing. A small, thatched, cob two-storey outbuilding is attached to the farmhouse by a short cob wall, with a planked door featuring a cyma recta moulding and a louvre above. The roof of this outbuilding has morticed and side-pegged principals resting on the wall plate. A four-panelled 17th-century door survives in a section of garden wall, screening the kitchen garden to the left of the farmhouse.