Barters Old Farmhouse

Barters Old Farmhouse is a house that was originally a farmhouse, dating from the 17th century. It was remodeled in the early 19th century and extended, likely in the late 19th century. The building features rendered rubble walls and a gable-ended asbestos slate roof with serrated ridge tiles. There are three rendered, probably brick, stacks: one axial and one at each gable end, along with a rendered brick shaft at the rear outshut.

The original layout consisted of a three-room and through-passage plan, with the hall stack backing onto the passage. It is unclear if the lower room to the left and the inner room were originally heated. The interior has been remodeled, with a staircase added to the passage and new windows installed in the early 19th century. An outshut was likely added at the rear of the inner room or hall in the late 19th century.

The house is two storeys high and has an asymmetrical four-window front featuring 20th-century replica 12-pane sashes with horns set in earlier flush frames. The first floor window to the right of centre is probably from the 19th century. On the ground floor, there is an early 19th-century tripartite sash window with 20 panes, next to a late 20th-century two-light casement without glazing bars. To the left of centre, there is a 20th-century glazed door leading to the passage, sheltered by a 20th-century replacement flat porch-hood supported by heavy timber posts, which originally had round wooden columns. At the left end of the house, there is a two-storey building with a garage on the ground floor, an adjoining passageway to the rear, and stone steps leading to the first floor; this may have originally been a granary.

Inside, the hall features a 17th-century wood lintel over the fireplace, which is chamfered with hollow step stops. There is a small wall cupboard next to the fireplace on the front wall, probably from the 18th century, with a fielded-panel door. Some six-panel doors and a stick baluster staircase date from the 19th-century remodeling.