Barracks Farmhouse

Barracks Farmhouse is a former farmhouse and adjoining stable, now a detached private house, likely built in the late 18th century or early 19th century and restored in the 1980s. The building is constructed of brick and features a slate roof with a parapet wall at the front, which has coped verges that rise to external brick end stacks—one very large on the left with oversailing brick courses, and a smaller one on the right, which is integrated into the stable that was probably separate originally and has a tile roof.

The main range is two storeys high with an attic at the gable ends, and there is a two-storey former stable to the right. The farmhouse has three windows, which are 16-pane sashes with stone keystones and voussoirs, some of which have been restored. The ground floor features two similar flanking restored or reused six-panel doors, where the top two panels are glazed, the centre two are fielded, and the lower two are flush. This is complemented by a segmental-headed projecting wooden porch from the late 19th century, which has trellis-work sides.

The stable has two windows that are 20th-century two-light casements with cambered heads, and two similar windows on the ground floor, with the left-hand window next to a plank door, both under a long timber lintel. Although the building has undergone alterations in the past, it has been sympathetically restored to closely resemble its original design. It is said to be located on the site of barracks for soldiers at a nearby moated castle, which has since disappeared, and it served as the point from which all local water flow and drainage was managed in the 19th century.