Barton Mead And Attached Wall

Barton Mead is a house dating from the early 17th century, with extensions made in 1674 and alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble and features a slate roof with brick ridge and end stacks. The house has a four-unit plan, is two storeys high with an attic, and has a five-window range. The main front faces the garden and includes an old studded plank door to the left of centre, which has a chamfered wood surround, a moulded stone lintel, and a hood mould. The windows are irregularly glazed, consisting of two- and three-light casement windows with wood lintels, and there is a single-storey bay window and a two-storey bay window added to the far right in 1926. A central datestone below the eaves is inscribed with the year 1674.

The right gable end features a two-light ovolo-moulded window with a hood mould, and above it are two panels framed by another hood mould, one of which has a worn inscription with the names John Barton and Richard Barton. There is also a two-light ovolo-moulded window in the gable above, which includes a round-arched light and small leaded crown glass panes. The building has a plinth, quoins, and hollow-chamfered stone eaves.

An attached wall, approximately 3 metres high, extends from the right end of the house and forms the boundary wall of the garden along The Close and Gayton Road. Inside, the house features stop-chamfered spine beams, a stone fireplace with a moulded Tudor-arched head, a smaller stone fireplace in an upstairs room with moulded jambs and lintel, and an open kitchen fireplace with a chamfered bressumer. There is also a fitted cupboard with a semi-domed head, fluted pilasters, and shaped shelves.