Newton Barton Farmhouse

Newton Barton Farmhouse is a farmhouse that may have parts dating from the 17th or 18th century, but most of it is from the mid to late 19th century. It is constructed of plastered stone rubble, with some areas possibly made of cob. The stone rubble stacks are topped with 19th-century brick. The main part of the house has a red tile roof, while part of it is thatched, and the service wing has a slate roof.

The building has an L-shaped plan. The main block faces south and features a five-room layout. The main house consists of three rooms on the right (east) side, which has two axial stacks; the right stack is situated between the two principal rooms. To the left of these rooms is an entrance lobby that leads to a staircase in its own block projecting to the rear. The dining room is located to the left of the entrance lobby, and there is a kitchen wing that projects at right angles to the rear with an end stack. The main block continues to the left with another two rooms and an axial stack between them, which appears more vernacular and may be older. A crosswing projects forward from the left end and contains the former stables and coach house.

The main house is two storeys high. The exterior features a regular but not symmetrical arrangement of windows, with a 2:5 window front. The left two-window section has late 19th to early 20th-century casements with glazing bars beneath the thatched roof section, which has eaves lower than the main house on the right. The five-window section consists of horned 16-pane sashes. The doorway, located left of centre in this section, has a late 19th-century part-glazed panelled door behind a contemporary gabled porch with shaped bargeboards and a round-headed outer arch. The roof is hipped to the right.

The interior was not available for inspection at the time of this survey, but it appears that the main house retains a good deal of 19th-century joinery and other details, including a stick baluster geometric staircase.