Uppincott Barton

Uppincott Barton is a Grade II* listed farmhouse located in Shobrooke, dating from the early 17th century and modernized around 1970. The building is constructed of rendered cob on rubble footings, featuring stone stacks with brick tops and a thatched roof. It has an E-shaped plan facing south and consists of two storeys, except for the left front wing.

The main block has a three-room and through passage plan, with an inner room to the right (east) and an adjoining front parlour wing. There is a central two-storey porch and a single-storey wing in front of the kitchen, which was formerly independent and accessed only through a now-blocked door in the angle of the wings. The kitchen has a gable stack, the hall has a rear lateral stack, and the parlour wing has an outer lateral stack, with all projecting wings gable-ended.

Original oak-mullioned windows are present on either side of the porch, on the front gable of the porch, and on the inside face of the parlour wing, with four lights on the ground floor and three on the first floor. The mullions feature an external hollow chamfer and an internal ovolo. The central light of the first-floor window to the right of the porch retains leaded panes of early glass. The porch entrance has a moulded head beam, although the posts were renewed around 1970. The original panelled and studded front door is set in a moulded frame.

Inside, there is a moulded oak plank and muntin screen separating the passage from the hall. The hall features a stone fireplace with an oak lintel and a cross beam carrying scratch-moulded joints. A 16th-century beam was inserted into the inner room around 1970. The parlour has a stone fireplace, and the kitchen includes a large fireplace with a bread oven to the right and a walk-in smoking chamber to the left, which now serves as access to the west wing. The original pitched stone paving between the front wings has been partly restored. The roof timbers are likely original, with principals and collars. This farmhouse is a well-preserved example of a large, mostly single-period structure. The roof is not accessible.