Stafford Barton

Heritage listing

Details DOLTON SS 51 SE 5/55 Stafford Barton 20.12.56 II* House, formerly small manor house. Circa mid C16, probably with earlier origins, altered and probably extended in C17, with further additions and alterations in C19 and circa 1920. Stone rubble walls, small coursed dressed stone blocks to porch, wall to its left and inner face of left-hand wing. Projecting rubble lateral stack at front with offsets, small C20 projecting front lateral stack to right of porch and another C20 rubble stack axial to rear right-hand wing, otherwise 4 brick stacks. Plan: complex development of plan, complicated by C20 alterations and addition. The basic form of 3 rooms and through-passage can just be discerned although the lower end to the right may have comprised 2 rooms. Hall heated by front lateral stack, small inner room beyond, 2 storey porch at front of passage. Wing projecting to front of inner room has similar stonework so may be contemporary or part of an early C17 remodelling which probably included the insertion of the hall stack although no direct evidence survives for an open hall. In the C19 2 rear wings were added one behind the passage and one behind the lower end, beyond the inner room an outbuilding addition was also made. The house was further extended in circa 1920 with a wing at the front which extended at the right end to another large wing at the rear, in both of these wings and the remainder of the house numerous old features were incorporated and re-used many from other old buildings in the area and replica features such as windows, doorways and beams inserted. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical and very irregular front of which the old part of the house forms the central 5 window portion with a wing at its left-hand end and 2 storey gabled porch at centre. To le

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.