Flitton Barton

Flitton Barton is a farmhouse, originally a working farm building, dating from the early to mid 17th century. It was altered considerably in the mid to late 19th century, with further changes in the late 20th century. The original core is built of cob and stone, with a later addition constructed of dressed stone with ashlar details. The 20th-century roof is slate, with a probable asbestos covering to the original 17th-century portion (formerly thatched) and a scantle-slate roof to the 19th-century wing. The farmhouse has stone stacks, one from the 17th century and another from the 19th century, with a red-brick top to the latter.

The original layout consisted of three rooms facing south, built on sloping ground that falls to the left. It originally included an end stack on the left side and an axial stack between the central and right-hand rooms. A mid to late 19th-century addition was built to the right, comprising an entrance hall with a front porch and a rear staircase, alongside a slightly projecting gabled cross wing. A 20th-century wing is situated to the rear of the right-hand end of the original 17th-century range.

The front of the 17th-century range appears roughly symmetrical with three windows. It has late 20th-century plate-glass wooden casements in former window openings. A late 20th-century glazed door is located on the left, with a lean-to glazed porch. One of the ground-floor windows on the left was formerly a doorway. The 19th-century wing features a chamfered plinth and shaped barge boards. It has two first-floor wooden cross windows from the 19th century, with stone flat-arched heads, and one 20th-century plate-glass window (in a 19th-century opening), also with a stone flat arch. A recessed one-light casement window from the 19th century is located on the first floor to the left, with a wooden lintel. The 19th-century wing also incorporates a half-glazed door (two panels below and margin lights above) and a gabled stone porch with a boarded door in a beaded frame, accessed by slate steps.

Inside, the left-hand ground-floor room of the original 17th-century range has a 17th-century open fireplace with stone jambs and a chamfered wooden lintel with run-out stops. The central ground-floor room contains an 18th-century cupboard with two doors, each consisting of two raised and fielded panels, and H-L hinges. The right-hand ground-floor room has a 17th-century chamfered cross beam, also featuring run-out stops. The first-floor rooms and roofspace were not inspected during the survey in September 1987. When originally listed in February 1967, the property had leaded windows, which have since been replaced.