Stone Barton

Stone Barton is a farmhouse, likely incorporating late medieval fabric, substantially remodelled in the 17th century and again in the late 19th century. It is built of unrendered stone rubble, with a slate roof and axial and gable brick stacks. The original plan was a three-room and through-passage layout, though heavily modified over time. A 19th-century staircase runs straight in the passage, and a brick stack backs onto it, heating the adjacent middle room. A large kitchen occupies the right side of the house, with a service staircase in the rear right corner. A former ciderhouse at the right end was converted into living space in the 20th century, and an outshut extends to the rear of the main range. The exterior has two storeys and a six-window front. Most windows are 20th-century 3-light casements with 3 panes per light, with a 2-light casement above the porch, which has a slated roof and a segmental pointed-arch doorway. A six-panelled door, the upper four panels glazed, leads to the house. A French window is located at the left end; all windows have brick lintels. The former ciderhouse has a two-window front. Inside, the interior was largely altered in the 19th century, except for a deeply chamfered cross ceiling beam in the kitchen with hollow step stops and a chamfered cross ceiling beam in the room to the left. The kitchen contains a large fireplace with a 19th-century chimneypiece and a bread oven. The ciderhouse retains two large chamfered axial ceiling beams and a winder staircase in the rear right corner. The roof structure is of king-post design, though it incorporates five smoke-blackened rafters reused as braces, potentially indicating the building's late medieval origins.