Barn Close House

Barn Close House is a house dating from 1910 to 1911, designed by Halsey Ricardo for Mrs. J. B. Simpson, and subsequently altered in the 20th century. The exterior is a combination of stuccoed English bond brick and flint, tile hanging, and weatherboarding, with a clay tile roof featuring gabled ends. Brick gable-end stacks are present, with the eastern stack corbelled out and featuring diagonally-set shafts.

The house has a rectangular double-depth plan. The north front is three bays wide, with a projecting central bay constructed in English bond brick and featuring coved eaves to a large, overhanging weatherboarded gable. A round arch leads to an integral porch with a plank inner door; the fenestration is characterised by carefully arranged small casement windows. The roofline extends to the left and right, with lower eaves and four-light casements below. To the west is a brick wing, originally single-storey, which has been raised to two storeys. A service wing is set back at an obtuse angle to the southwest, and originally featured a verandah on its south garden front, now glazed.

The rear, south garden front, is three storeys high and five bays wide, with three small tile-hung gables carried on curved brackets. Various small sash and casement windows with glazing bars are present, along with a large, two-storey semi-circular bay window, featuring a moulded wooden cornice and a balustrade to a balcony above, topped with a semi-circular flat-roof canopy. Two garden doors are on the ground floor, one on either side of the bay window. The east end of the house has rounded corners.

The interior has not been inspected, but is reportedly intact. Architectural drawings are held at the Hampshire County Records Office.