Barton Turf


Barton Turf is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It is 20 km north-east of the city of Norwich, on the northwestern edge of Barton Broad, the second largest of the Norfolk Broads. In primary local government the area is in the district of North Norfolk.
The civil parish, which includes the whole of Barton Broad and the smaller village of Irstead at its southern end, has an area of 10.86 km2. In the 2001 census it had a population of 480 in 181 households, the population decreasing to 467 at the 2011 Census.
Barton Turf's St Michael and All Angels Church, Barton Turf, about a mile from the clustered village centre, has a large, ornate medieval painted rood screen such as many medieval parishes who could afford fine artisans once had, but which have rarely survived the English Reformation.

Barton Hall

Barton Hall, Barton Turf is a fine house having had some notable residents, such as Sir Sidney Peel's noble wife and is a Grade II listed building with a typical, of a former manorial farmhouse, fishpond and array of outhouses around a courtyard to the front.
It was built 1742 with two fronts later remodelled. Its walls are brick, partly plastered to appear ashlar. Its roofs are of plain tiles and pantiles. A grand list of 18th-century revival classical architecture follows in its listing such as detailing its tympanum, entablature, pediment, quoins, rustication, string course by cornice and rounded window within intercolumniation.
Inside its square entrance hall leads to a passage via glazed doors. Its dog-leg staircase has square newel posts, a ramped handrail and iron twist balusters.

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