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Barton Farm, beside the river Avon, was the grange farm of the Abbey of Shaftesbury’s estate of Bradford and remained a working farm into the 1960s. The farmhouse may have originally been used to house the Abbess of Shaftesbury’s Bailiff and his retinue on occasional visits. Most of the building was rebuilt, or at least highly modified, in the Georgian period and is now divided into two separate homes. From the medieval farmhouse there remains a perpendicular-style late 15th century two-storey porch and, at the other end, the wing that juts out and over the old farm track contains a large medieval room with a fine open timber roof on its upper floor. This might have been the audience hall of the Bailiff, where he received tenants or perhaps held the Manor and Hundred courts.
For more information see: Link from whose site much of the above information has been taken.
The farmhouse is listed, grade I, with details at: Link and on the site of a Scheduled Ancient Monument with much history and details at: Link