Barracks Farmhouse

MORETON VALENCE MORETON VALENCE VILLAGE SO 70 NE 6/232 Barracks Farmhouse II Former farmhouse and adjoining stable, now detached private house. Probably late C18/early C19, restored 1980s. Brick, slate roof with parapet wall to front, coped with verges swept up to external brick end stacks, very large to left with oversailing brick courses, and smaller to right, absorbed within stable formerly probably separate, with tile roof. Single main range of 2 storeys with attic at gable ends, and 2-storey former stable to right. Three windows, 16-pane sashes with stone keystone and voussoirs, some restored. Ground floor has 2 similar flanking restored or reused 6-panel door, top 2 panels glazed, centre 2 fielded, lower 2 flush, with segmental-headed projecting wooden porch of later C19 with trellis-work sides. Stable has 2 windows, C20 two-light casements under cambered heads, 2 similar to ground floor with left hand window adjacent to plank door and both under long timber lintel. The building has been altered in the past but sympathetically restored to something close to its probable original design. Said to be on site of barracks for soldiers at moated castle adjacent (now disappeared) and the point from which all local waterflow and drainage was controlled in C19.

Listing NGR: SO7793909951