Barton Cross Restaurant

This is a late 16th-century house, now used as a restaurant and private residence. The building is constructed of cob with a stone plinth, rendered to the gable and hipped ends, and has a thatched roof. Originally designed with a 3-room cross-passage plan, a rear parlour wing was later added to the right-hand end, featuring a separate roof with a higher ridge. An external side stack, offset and with a tiled base and brick shaft, serves this wing. A small, single-storey extension incorporating remains of a thick cob wall is located at the lower end of the house. The main range has an end stack (external above the left-hand extension) and an axial stack, both with brick shafts. The front of the house has a former lower end with two 2-light windows under eyebrow eaves, and one 3-light window below. The hall has one single and one 2-light window at ground-floor level, and the parlour has a 2-light window above and a 3-light window below. All windows are casements with 20th-century bars. Large eyebrow eaves dormers are present at the rear, also of 20th-century date. The interior of the lower end retains some old carpentry, including one chamfered beam with run-out stops. The roof comprises 4 principals, one being a chamfered jointed cruck in the hall, with a hip cruck at the higher end. There are chamfered collars and scarfed purlins. The hall, believed to have always had a chamber above, is now open to the level of the roof collars.