Listed buildings in Barton-le-Street explained

Barton-le-Street is a civil parish in the former Ryedale district of North Yorkshire, England. It contains seven listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is listed at Grade I, the highest of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The parish contains the villages of Barton-le-Street and Butterwick, and the surrounding countryside. The listed buildings consist of houses and farmhouses, a church and a cross base in its churchyard, and a milepost.

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-GradeCriteria
IBuildings of exceptional interest, sometimes considered to be internationally important
IIBuildings of national importance and special interest

Buildings

Name and locationPhotographDateNotesGrade
Cross base
54.1589°N -0.8971°W
The cross base in the churchyard of St Michael's Church is in gritstone. It is about high and deep, and has a rebate for a shaft.
Willow Farmhouse
54.1794°N -0.8858°W
The house is in limestone, and has coved eaves and a swept pantile roof. The house has two storeys and two bays and a rear outshut, and to the left is a single-storey service wing. In the house the windows are sashes with flat stone arches and keystones, and in the service wing they are casements.
Manor Farmhouse
54.1878°N -0.8821°W
The farmhouse is in brick, and has a pantile roof with gable coping and shaped kneelers. There are two storeys, three bays, and an outshut and a cross-wing at the rear. On the front is a porch, and the windows are sashes in architraves under relieving arches.
The Old Smithy
54.1581°N -0.8983°W
The house and smithy are in limestone, and have a pantile roof with gable coping and shaped kneelers. There are two storeys, and an irregular plan. They contain doorways, and the windows are horizontally-sliding sashes.
Barton House
54.1595°N -0.8956°W
The house is in limestone and has a pantile roof, hipped on the right. There are two storeys and four bays. The doorway has a divided fanlight, the windows are sashes, and all the openings have flat stone arches.
St Michael's Church
54.1588°N -0.897°W
1871The church was rebuilt on the site of an earlier church dating from about 1160, incorporating much sculpture, both original from the earlier church, and contemporary Victorian sculpture. The church is built in Hildenley limestone, the roof is in Westmorland slate, the original sculpture is in Hildenley limestone, and the contemporary sculpture is in Birdsall sandstone. Th church consists of a nave with a south porch, and a chancel with a north vestry, and on the west gable is a double-arched bellcote. Around the church is a corbel table containing about 100 individually carved corbels. The porch is round-arched, and contains three orders of voussoirs, the outer order with various carvings, and the inner orders with chevrons, and the door jambs have carved panels. The windows are round-headed, and at the east and west ends is an oculus.
Milepost
54.1547°N -0.8841°W
The milepost on the north side of the B1257 road has a triangular plan and a sloping top. On each side is a pointing hand, the left side indicates the distance to Malton and the right side to Helmsley.

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