Midway House And Barn

Midway House and Barn is an 18th-century house located on High Street in Ston Easton. The building features coursed and squared rubble with thick and thin alternating bands, dressed freestone quoins, and a slate roof that has three courses of stone tiles at the eaves, along with coped verges and brick stacks. The front of the house is symmetrical, with wings at the rear that form a rough U-plan. It stands two storeys high with an attic and has five bays, each with moulded two-light stone-mullioned windows. There is a continuous string course above the first-floor windows, which is cut away to create individual cornice drips over the ground-floor windows. The central door opening is framed by a moulded wooden architrave and features paired half-glazed doors with a segmental hood supported by two wooden columns.

At the rear, there is an extensive single-storey wing that is at right angles to the main structure, along with an attached two-storey rubble barn that has a pantile roof. Inside, the house boasts ornamental plasterwork, panelled doors, a fireplace set in a fluted marble surround, window shutters, and cupboards with Gothick glazing. In the 19th century, the building was used as a shop, which is why the ground floor has canted bays and the string course is cut away.