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There are two houses, both grand, with a similar name, an issue which is confusing looking at historical records as the name changes. In the census The Bartons refers to both the house on Church Street and The Green. For this reason I have decided to include them both on the same page.

Barton Abbotts was previously called The Bartons and was built for woolstapler William Savage in mid C18, on a site of some houses he bought in 1730. The building has a rendered mid C18 front of three storeys and six bays and a restored porch with Doric columns. The garden side is earlier. A former stable entrance further east is probably later C18. The grounds extended some distance southeast with C18 pleasure grounds wrapped round the east and south sides of the Saxon ramparts. Near the north end there survive a rectangular Gothic folly, a pair of plunge pools and further east an hexagonal Tuscan summer house.
In 1796 it was bought and altered by Robert Clark Paul and Whyte Melville, the writer was a later occupant. The street front, the staircase and some internal fittings survive from Savages house but extensive additions were made on the southeast in the late C18 and the C19, and further extensions on the southwest in the early C20. 
The house was extensively modernised in the 1960s

Residents include:

1730 William Savage

1796 Robert Clark Paul
1851 John Comely Wickham, GP
1871 William Brookes Esq landowner, JP
1876 Mrs Wiliam Brookes The Bartons

1878 Whyte Melville
1896 - 1919 Charles Willoughby BISHOP late Major 9th Lancers

SOURCES & RESOURCES:

Verey, David; Gloucestershire. - 1 : The Cotswolds; 3rd ed; London : Penguin, 1999; 0140710981

Images of England picture of Barton House, Church Street

GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHIVES:

TETBURY RURAL SANITARY AUTHORITY and RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL
FILE - ref. DA 36/710/2/12 - date: 07.12.1936 Garage & alterations to Barton House, Bath Rd (plans); owner: Mr. G. B. Miller; agent: Marshall and Coates, Southampton

Davis, Champion and Payne, chartered surveyors, estate agents and auctioneers, Stroud.
FILE [no title] - ref. D1405/4/351 - date: 1938 Barton House photograph
FILE - ref. D1405/10/119 - date: 1941 Barton House: inventory, schedule of condition (tenancy)
 

Wight family of Tetbury
Catalogue Ref. D8178
Creator(s): Wight family of Tetbury, Gloucestershire
 The book was probably started by John Wight senior in 1704. John Wight, junior, vicar of Tetbury 1741/2-1777 was one of the town's principal benefactors and wrote in the book of his presentation to the vicarage. He promoted the rebuilding of the church, gave a legacy for removing encroachments from the streets and rebuilt the vicarage. He added a new wing to a house he had acquired called the Bartons to the south-west of the churchyard. In 1749 he paid for placing a pump over an old well at the great market house which he also recorded in this book. (see Victoria History of Gloucestershire Vol X1 ed.N M Herbert, pp.259, 262, 277-80, 283)