Barrs Court Farm a history with photographs The remains of Barrs Court mansion have vanished without trace other than a cruciform barn dating back to 1540, now converted into a public house.The ruins at the site today, belong to the farm which replaced the manor-house in the mid 18th century. the one complete remaining building is the principle barn, a massive cruciform structure 23m long, which during the mid 1990s was converted into what is now the Barrs Court public house. It will be seen from the first photograph below, that the farmhouse had two main elevations. The North East front, two stories high, contained at its centre the main entrance to the building, flanked by two gables incorporating the hall & kitchen chimney stacks. Over the main doorway was a fine renaissance relief almost one metre square depicting the Newton coat of arms. The South East elevation ( second photograph) faces onto a garden which occupied the north end of the moated enclosure and consisted of a single storey surmounted by a row of five gables resembling a typical hunting lodge of that era. The farmhouse originally formed one of the outbuildings of the original manor house. After the demolition of the manor house around 1740 this building was extensively altered using material from the manor house, in order to convert it into an independant dwelling place. The Photographs below show views of the farmhouse, the first looking over what is now Stephens Drive, and the second taken from within the moat field looking North. |
North facing front with coat of arms above doorway |
Overlooking the Moat field. |
