Description

BURRINGTON

SS 61 NW

5/8 East Aylescott
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II

Farmhouse. C15 core, remodelled probably in C18 with C19 and C20 alterations.
Rendered stone rubble and cob. Asbestos slate roof, hipped at left end. Axial
brick stack and brick stack at right gable end, both with toothed course around the
capping.
Basically 2-room and through-passage plan with hall to left heated by stack backing
onto passage and lower end room to right. Passage contains straight-run staircase.
The hall was originally open to the roof, and may well have remained so until the
C18 when the stack was probably inserted and the lower end including the through
passage entirely rebuilt. The higher left end was also modified by the insertion of
the hip and it is therefore unclear whether the house extended further to the left.
2 storeys. 4-window range. C20 fenestration, 2-light casements. Ground floor
right-hand window has 2-light casement 8 panes per light. 4-light hall window to
left of porch with slated gabled roof and semi-circular arched doorway. C20 inner
door. Bread oven projection with slate capping immediately to left of porch.
Slated dairy outshut partially rebuilt in C20 to rear of hall.
Interior. Heavily altered in C19 and mostly in C20. Hall retains 2 cross ceiling
beams, 1 chamfered and unstopped, the other cased in. Chamfered lintel to hall
fireplace with bread oven. Creamery recess in rear wall of hall.
The roof trusses over the lower end replaced in C18 with principals of light
scantling and lapped pegged collars. The roof over the hall, however, is of a fine
quality, indicating that this was once a farmhouse of some stature There are 2
raised archbraced cruck trusses, the soffits of the archbraces chamfered, with short
connecting pieces to the soffits of the morticed and tenoned cranked collars.
Diagonally threaded ridge purlin and 2 tiers of threaded purlins, the lower tier
chamfered on both upper and lower sides with a single windbrace surviving to the
front and 2 to the rear. All the roof members over the hall, including a few
surviving rafters, are heavily smoke-blackened. The lower truss is set immediately
in front of the inserted stack. At the upper end, the modification in the C18 to
hipped construction, involved the sawing off of the ends of the original purlins,
but this second bay appears to have been truncated by the insertion of the left end
gable wall to support the hip, suggesting that originally the house may have
extended further to the left.

Listing NGR: SS6180416349

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26400594

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Recommended Books

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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)