Description

PIRTON BURGE END LANE TL 13 SW (East side)

1/138 No. 4 27.5.68 (Burge End Farmhouse)

GV II

Farmhouse. Early C17; in late C18 refaced in brick, extended both ends, subdivided and fireplaces added. Timber frame on stuccoed sill, roughcast and brick built W wing. Steep old red tile roof hipped over W end. A 2-cells and outshut, 2-storeys and attic, lobby entrance, internal chimney plan house facing N into farmyard, with gabled stair turret to rear of chimney, added 2-storeys W wing and lean-to E extension. N front is 3-windows wide with 2-lights flush casement windows to 1st floor and 3-lights to ground floor (2-lights to LH). W wing of red brick chequered with black brick over a roughcast apron and plinth. Entrance in middle of roughcast part with early C19 5-panels flush beaded door (fielded cross-panel in middle), reeded surround with corner blocks and flat hood on shaped brackets. Plan has original parlour in room, hall/kitchen in E room with outshut at rear which has a wide fireplace and domed brick oven. Axial beams, exposed framing with close-spaced studs, long straight tension braces cut into backs of studs, straight windbraces. Original staircase with closed-string, square newels with half-baluster, symmetrical balusters, heavy rounded handrail, obelisk finials. Massive posts and straight braces to tie-beams. On 1st floor a chamfered brick fireplace in chamber over parlour with depressed 4-centred head, blocked 3-lights S window with exposed timber frame. S wall of chamber over hall has blocked 3-lights ovolo-moulded mullioned window with iron intermediate bars. Moulded plank doors with iron hinges. Clasped-purlin roof with thin almost straight braces. (RCHM Typescript).

Listing NGR: TL1438432333

External Links

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