Exton Barton

Exton Barton is a house, formerly a farmhouse, dating from around 1600, with later extensions and alterations. It is constructed of roughcast cob on stone footings and features a gabled-end thatched roof. Originally designed as a 3-room, through-passage plan house, the higher end is to the right of the passage. The house was extended and partially rebuilt in brick during the 19th century, while the service end includes a shallow rear wing that was once used as a dairy, which was extended in the 1930s.

The service end is heated by an external end stack that has a bake-oven bulge, and there is an axial stack that heats both the hall and the inner room, with brick shafts, including one that reuses 17th-century bricks. The building has two storeys and a front with a six-window range. On the first floor, there are three 19th-century three-light casement windows for the hall and service end, and the inner room has three later casement windows beneath eyebrow eaves. The ground floor features all casement windows, including a three-light window for the service end, a five-light window for the hall, and two three-light windows along with a French window for the inner room. There are also two 19th-century three-light casement windows on the old rear wing facing the road to the west, and a 1930s extension that runs parallel to the main range under a slate roof. The rear has a lean-to with two small first-floor windows.

Inside, the service end contains three ceiling cross beams, one from the 20th century, another deeply chamfered with hollow step stops, and a third above the fireplace with composite moulding featuring three cavetto and two ovolo profiles. The fireplace lintel and a reused fragment of a composite moulded beam are present, with the back and side oven rebuilt in the 1930s using attractively laid tiles and cobbles. In the hall, the higher end features a passage bressumer with composite moulding, but without mortices for muntin, suggesting it was reused. There are two ceiling cross-beams in the hall, chamfered with ovolo and one fillet, adorned with scroll stops featuring a rose motif. One cupboard has three fielded panels and H-hinges. The fireplaces in the hall and inner room have been replaced. The inner room has two unstopped chamfered beams and two elm beams with ovolo and fillet profiles that may be recent. There is also one 17th-century door with studded rails and fleur-de-lis strap hinges, which is now part of a larger 20th-century door.