Description

BURSTWICK BACK LANE TA 22 NW (north side)

4/1 Burstwick House

II Farmhouse, now house. Early C19, possibly with earlier origins. C20 renovations. Front and stacks in yellow brick in Flemish bond, remainder in red brick. Welsh slate roof to front, pantiles to remainder. L-shaped on plan: 2-room central entrance-hall front with single-room wing to rear left, outshuts in angle and single-room addition to rear. South front: 2 storeys with attic, 3 bays; symmetrical. C20 restored doorcase with fluted pilasters, entablature with plain frieze, moulded cornice and hood. 6-panel door beneath moulded cornice and radial overlight in panelled reveal. C20 replacement sashes with glazing bars in original stuccoed reveals with sills and channelled and keyed cambered wedge lintels; narrower sash above entrance. Plain eaves board. Stone-coped gables. Ridge and end stacks. Left and right returns have original 16-pane sashes in flush wooden architraves, and C20 bow windows in original openings with sills and lintels similar to front. Interior: open well staircase with ramped handrail, slender column balusters and newels; moulded cornices and marble chimney- pieces to ground-floor front rooms; original wooden pilastered chimney- pieces with moulded cornices to first-floor front bedrooms; panelled window shutters, 6-fielded panel doors in architraves throughout.

Listing NGR: TA2253627694

External Links

• Wikidata Q26365113

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