Description

SX 99 NW HUXHAM HUXHAM

4/145 Barton Cross Restaurant

II

House, now house and restaurant. Late C16 with later alterations and additions.
Cob, stone plinth, rendered under gabled-end and hipped thatched roof.
Originally a 3-room cross-passage plan, to which a rear parlour wing added (to
the right-hand end, separately roofed with higher ridge level) with an external
side lateral stack, off-set tiled, brick shaft. To the lower end is a small
single-storeyed extension which incorporates remains of a thick cob wall. End
stack (external above left-hand extension) and axial stack, both with brick
shafts, to main range. Front: former lower end with two 2-light windows under
eyebrow eaves, and one 3-light window below; Hall only with one single and one
2-light window at ground-floor level; parlour with 2-light window above, 3-light
below. All casements barred C20. Large eyebrow-eaves/dormers to rear, all C20.
Interior: some exposed old carpentry to lower end including one chamfered beam
with hollow step stops; Roof: 4 principals, one of them a chamfered jointed
cruck in Hall, with hip cruck at higher end; collars (chamfered) and scarfed
purlins. All clean. The hall, believed always to have had chamber above, is now
open to the level of the roof collars.

Listing NGR: SX9465697877

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26592656

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Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]